Marc-André Hamelin - Godowsky: Johann Strauss Transcriptions & Other Waltzes [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Marc-Andre Hamelinu2019s programme is mostly devoted to Godowskyu2019s works based on themes byu2014or directly inspired byu2014Johann Strauss II. It is not intended to be a comprehensive survey but is, nevertheless, fully representative of Godowskyu2019s finest reflections on the Waltz King. In the three great Strauss transcriptions, Godowsky elevated the art of the piano paraphrase to a higher musical and pianistic plane; however their extreme technical difficulty remains a striking feature and places them out of the reach of ordinary pianists. And Marc-Andre Hamelin is, of course, no ordinary pianistu2014in fact his playing on a recent disc was compared to that of Alkan and Liszt.rTriakontameron and Walzermasken are rarely performed examples of Godowskyu2019s original work, and continue the composeru2019s love-affair with the waltzu2014they are written entirely in 3/4 time.rThe last work on this dazzling disc is an oddityu2014indeed, a rarity. Sometime prior to 1925, Godowsky made a piano roll of his arrangement of The Last Waltz by Oscar Straus (1870u20131954), the Vienna-born composer. The eponymous Waltz is heard throughout the 1920 operetta. The music of Godowskyu2019s transcription was never published for some unknown reasonu2014it is a uniquely appealing arrangement. In the early 1970s, Gilles Hamelin, the pianophile father of Marc-Andre, notated, arranged and edited The Last Waltz from Godowskyu2019s piano roll, which was then published in 1975. Shortly afterwards, a copy of the negative of Godowskyu2019s manuscript was sent to Gilles Hamelin. It was all but illegible, so Hamelin Snr. made a fair copy in his own hand: in almost every respect it tallied with the version he had transcribed from the piano roll.

Symphonic metamorphosis of themes from Johann Strauss's 'Kunstlerleben'

Fantasies (24) for Piano 'Walzermasken': no 2, Pastell

Fantasies (24) for Piano 'Walzermasken': no 14, Franzxefxbfxbdsisch

Fantasies (24) for Piano 'Walzermasken': no 22, Wienerisch

Fantasies (24) for Piano 'Walzermasken': no 24, Portrait Johann Strauss

Symphonic metamorphosis of themes from 'Die Fledermaus'

Triakontameron: no 4, Rendezvous

Triakontameron: no 11, Alt Wien

Triakontameron: no 13, Terpsichorean Vindobona

Triakontameron: no 21, The Salon

Triakontameron: no 25, Erinnerungen

Symphonic metamorphosis of Johann Strauss's 'Wein, Weib und Gesang' Waltzes

Der letzte Walzer: Act I Waltz - Oscar Straus

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