Godowsky / Scherbakov,Konstantin Piano Music 11 CD

Leopold Godowsky, one of the world's greatest piano virtuosos, wrote a sequence of demanding works for his own instrument that fully reveal his exceptional command of the keyboard. The 1929 Six Pieces for both hands, each dedicated to a celebrated fellow pianist, are full of huge vitality, whilst the Suite for the left hand alone hints at baroque procedure in it's movement titles but actually revels in late-romantic richness of expression. The Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes from the Gypsy Baron, only published after Godowsky's death, is a brilliantly artful concoction.

1. Meditation 2. Impromptu 3. Capriccio 4. Intermezzo 5. Elegy 6. Etude Macabre 7. Marchen 8. Allemande 9. Courante 10. Gavotte 11. Sarabande 12. Bourree 13. Sicilienne 14. Menuet 15. Gigue 16. Prelude 17. Fugue 18. Moto Perpetuo 19. Symphonic Metamorphosis of the Schatz - Walzer Themes from J. Strauss's 'Der Zigeunerbaron' for the Left Hand