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Leggierezza was recorded on 78's. It's not as spectacular as the roll but more representative of what he sounded like.

Thank you for this moving video. Ending with the out-of-tune Alt Wien on piano roll is a brilliant touch. There's not much of a folk ethos from Godowsky (to state the obvious) but, nonetheless, even the most refined musicians learned something about music at a dance.

I like the patience in the playing of the great Sonata! It is interesting how notes are accented for the last movement - I hear things that I previously don't!

Why is it so fast? is old styles always like that?

Interesting

Il terzo movimento come lo esegue Michelangeli nessuno secondo me

thanks for this

1:33 why is he playing G flats in that bar?

Best recording of this piece along with hofmanns

Bravo! A quick note - Ravel indicates in each movement that grace notes are to be played on the beat, and I hear all of yours coming before the beat. Very nice playing, otherwise.

Clunky and rhythmically insecure. Next.

The second recording sounds like midi. Sigh. I wish people understood that bach improvised this on the spot, on an organ, with no pedal, in a huge reverberant acoustic. These pieces need an organ.

Enormous! One of my favourite busoni/bach transcriptions. Great performers also

Hilarious

1809 : année solaire : quatuor 10 , concerto 5 ; grandioses Sonates 24 , 26 , 26 ; intimissimres . Lieder opus 83 : entre les deux....

Horovitz the Best here! The duo variant of recording. Its too cute,but no deep

I never realised there was a time when piano rolls were better option than audio recording.

WOW! Love his point of view.

Morgengruss and Gute Nacht are fabulous; there are more subtle performances of Buitzenborg from other pianists--1935 was post-stroke for Godowsky. It's not bad, but it's not on the level of the other two.

This piece is super difficult lol, as with much Godowsky stuff. I remember giving up on it because it was a pain to learn. Moiseiwitsch plays it effortlessly

Everything just feels right. La campanella sounds like a bell ringing, un sospiro feels like someone is taking a short breath, and la leggerezza feels very volatile but clean. I love this

the S144 is crazy

I would usually hate on la Campanella, but godowsky brings it in a new light. The same way I hated Chopin ballades, especially the first, Hofmann completely changed my mind on it. Truly wonderful.

Godowsky -best ever, as always . .

I appreciate your efforts expecially because you idolize a great pianist of the Golden Age! Rachmaninov Lhevinne Godowsky Hofmann BackHaus Petri Paderewsky Sauer De greef Lamond Dohnany Bartok.The time Is a gift of God.Listen only to the Golden Age of pianists (generations Born from 1830 till 1886)and you LL learn a lot and Will have enjoyment for whole life

His La campanella is magical, perfect singing line but laid back Un Sospiro, and in the Gnomenreigen, you can hear the Dance of the Gnomes and perfect evenness in the 16th notes.

The left hand work is crazy

Pro!

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A Colossus.......BRAVO from Acapulco!

Not within multiple orders of magnitude when compared to Rachmaninoff in this masterpiece, in my opinion. I have been generally very unimpressed by Godowsky's recordings, especially given his reputation. He was known to have an aversion for recording and asked that he not be judged by them. I think he was right about that.

Thanks for sharing. I have never heard before and it is amazing!

WOW!

The piano rolls reproduced rubato accurately but only had 20 steps in dynamics. Godowsky hated his recordings and didn't want to be remembered by them. So if this is his worst can you imagine what his best sounded like?

He should record more and compose and arrange less.

編曲好きのゴドフスキーが、真面目にベートーベンへ敬意を表して弾いた素晴らしい演奏👏🎹✨✨😊

Really impressive, the finale is incredible.

Wonderful, thanks

Piano rolls fall somewhere between unreliable and useless as representations of the artist's actual live performance. Too much doctoring and mechanical jiggering.

Nice.

Some of the greatest piano playing ever..... Everything is absolutely magical.

A little too careful and ponderous. No grandeur, or rhythmic snap.

The coda puts modern pianists to shame. It's not just insanely fast--he brings out so much structure even at this tempo

The left hand bangs out a thrilling drum beat towards the finish. You feel like the world is going to end

The playing is amazingly fresh. This was only about a year before the stroke which forced him to stop performing, but he plays like a young man who can't contain his excitement.

It’s one of his greatest records and one of his last.

Que ouro, nunca tinha ouvido este

love the thumbnail

Godowsky wrote insanely difficult piano music, but he could play as well. As I now know.

Это поледняя вещь, записанная Годовским в его жизни и карьере. По свидетельству его домашних он тогда страшно нервничал, ему не нравилось, он вернулся домой совершенно разбитым. Ночью его настиг инсульт, от которого он уже оправится не смог.