"Hyper-pianist" extraordinaire Carlo Grante is taking on some of the blackest piano music in history in his Godowsky Edition for Music & Arts, of which Romantic Transcriptions and Arrangements is the fifth volume. He began an earlier Godowsky edition for Altarus in the early '90s that only got as far as the Godowsky's 53 Studies on the Etudes of Chopin, whereas this Music & Arts series is already further along. It also is a marked improvement on the earlier effort, not only due to a more spacious and natural recorded sound ...
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"Hyper-pianist" extraordinaire Carlo Grante is taking on some of the blackest piano music in history in his Godowsky Edition for Music & Arts, of which Romantic Transcriptions and Arrangements is the fifth volume. He began an earlier Godowsky edition for Altarus in the early '90s that only got as far as the Godowsky's 53 Studies on the Etudes of Chopin, whereas this Music & Arts series is already further along. It also is a marked improvement on the earlier effort, not only due to a more spacious and natural recorded sound but in the depth of interpretation that the slightly older and more mature Grante is able to accord to it. Chopin does figure prominently in this program, as well, although one only need listen to Godowsky's Concert Paraphrase on Chopin's Waltz in E flat major, Op. 18, to realize what makes Godowsky's work different from the "real thing." The piece is literally turned inside out and is made heavy with substitutions from minor keys that render it into a surreal and dreamlike...
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