Instrumental, Piano Solos, Godowsky (composer)
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The sound quality throughout is amazingly good...there are several valuable additions to this great pianist’s discography. Not least among them is a superb live performance of the Emperor Concerto,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Archive/Reissue of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Collectionneur
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Historic Recording
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For pianistic solidity and proficiency, Kuo's Petrushka holds its own in the catalogue, albeit without breaking into the top tier. —
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Most of these pieces are light, even frothy morceaux, and Plowright does not overstate the musical case for them beyond their obvious delights of refinement and dexterity. But he balances them... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Stephen Hough fashions a viable programme culled from a bottomless piano bench of transcriptions, encores and other sundry ear-ticklers.
Indeed, Hough proves that one can make a well-balanced... — -
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A collection of miniature piano rarities and transcriptions put together to fascinating effect. —
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Chopin & Godowsky - Études
For the first time on record, Boris Berezovsky plays Chopin’s original etudes and Godowsky’s versions side by side allowing listeners to compare them.
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Berezovsky's technical command in Godowsky is formidable —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Editor's Choice
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Here is a cunning and potent mix of every conceivable form of pianistic and musical intricacy (it excludes the merely decorative, salon or ephemeral). Everything is of the most absorbing interest;... —
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a musical personality of a beguiling charm, a quality rarely encountered in today's more severe musical climate...You are reminded, too, of a naturalness and insouciance far removed from so... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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