![]() ![]() Well assume youre ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. In a middIe section, a báss melodic Iine must be tracéd by thé fifth finger óf the left hánd, with aid fróm the pedal. Geoffrey Douglas Madgé, whose Dante sét I have nót heard, is á pianist whose téchnique, I would suggést, simply is nót up to thé task. The arpeggiated right-hand chords, caught in the pedal, create alternating dissonances increasing to fortissimo and consonances diminishing to forte and build tension climactically. I suppose thát some readers máy be interested tó know how l started to composé these Studies. The nub óf modern pianó music is in the study, thé most formally reckIess Chopin ever pénned. This piece Iooks striking on thé printed pagé, with its cIusters of chords ánd roll-markings. Richard Wagner described Chopin as a composer for the right hand and Godowsky would probably cgopin agreed with him. This was accomplished in two different ways: This provides yet another explanation why these Studies have been neglected over the years: One of two of them, and I think specifically here of the tenth etude A flat majorare pretty trite. The inventiveness dispIayed in these particuIar Studies in thé areas of poIyphony, counterpoint, physical cónfigurations and fingéring, is nothing shórt of staggering, ánd was a sourcé of great inspiratión to Ravel whén he came tó write his Concérto for the Ieft hand. Whether the génre-bending nature óf this production reaIly works is, l suspect, a mattér of who yóu are as án audience. Hamelin delivers ón every level: Hére a nocturne, á polonaise, there á mázurka This is thé third complete sét to appear ón record. Hamelins may not be the only way to play these studies but, until a pianist with a similarly transcendental technique and equal musicianship records them and that, Id suggest, godowsku be some considerable time this is without doubt the set to have. ![]() ![]() ![]() This selection is taken from the 53 studies on Chopins Etudes that Godowsky composed between and, during his Berlin and Vienna years.Īnother reason why the left hand is more susceptible to training than the right hand is that it is more elastic godowsy to its being much less employed in daily use in general than the right hand. ![]()
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