Chopin/Godowsky - Study #22 (Revolutionary)

[frankiisko]

Well guys, as I put in my post of the Chopin's original étude, here is my performance  

This is a very curious study that mix up both hands in one of them, the left hand. That means You play melody and accompaniment just with one hand.

IMO Godowsky is a very underrated and unknown composer (maybe because of the difficulty of his works, too) but that lately has again become popular and even played in concert halls, it's not very strange watching pianists playing Godowsky. Even so the pianists should pay more attention to the wit and pianistic "tricks" he uses in his pieces. Thanks to Hamelin and Berzovsky, who became fashionable again the Godowsky's Étude. Also to Francesco Libetta, the only people who has ever played ALL THE 52 STUDIES IN ONE CONCERT. What a beast!!

This study is the first of the set that was recorded (Pachmann -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFffHDocfI0 )

Well, I hope this little historic introduction has been useful to inform you a little bit about these masterpieces qualified by Harold C. Shonberg as "the most impossibly difficult things ever written for the piano".

I have already played one of them, the first verision of the first Chopin's Étude -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLDvN6MLCE

Now I'd like to show you the second of my performances. I hope you like this study. Thanks very much for watching it!!  

[j_menz]

ALL THE 52 STUDIES IN ONE CONCERT. What a beast!!

53 at my count, and possibly a few more if they are ever uncovered.

Nicely done, and thanks for not maniacally gripping the piano with your free hand like Berezovsky. I still think holding a glass of wine/cup of coffee would be nicer. 

[frankiisko]

Well, as Wikipedia correctly says there is an Étude that contains two versions in one. So if you count that one as two of them yes, there are 53 haha!!

And yes, some of theme were lost (like the Triple Étude, which was recreated by Hamelin) but what we have now it's 52 étude and one of them has two different versions in itself.

I also have heard a lot of possibilities about what to do with the free hand, and it's quite funny to read the comments that people put about that haha!! 

Thank you very much and I hope to play more of them!! 

[ahinton]

Well guys, as I put in my post of the Chopin's original étude, here is my performance  

This is a very curious study that mix up both hands in one of them, the left hand. That means You play melody and accompaniment just with one hand.

IMO Godowsky is a very underrated and unknown composer (maybe because of the difficulty of his works, too) but that lately has again become popular and even played in concert halls, it's not very strange watching pianists playing Godowsky. Even so the pianists should pay more attention to the wit and pianistic "tricks" he uses in his pieces. Thanks to Hamelin and Berzovsky, who became fashionable again the Godowsky's Étude. Also to Francesco Libetta, the only people who has ever played ALL THE 52 STUDIES IN ONE CONCERT. What a beast!!

Godowsky is certainly far beter known known than once he was, but there are 54 published studies and you have omitted mention of Carlo Grante, the first pianist ever to have performed this entire cycle in public.