Godowsky: Studies on Chopin Op.25 -Emanuele Delucchi

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Piano Classics
Release Date
May 24, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GODOWSKY, LEOPOLD
    • PERFORMER
      Emanuele Delucchi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 24, 2019
    • UPC
      5029365101820
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10182
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 44 in F Minor (after Chopin's Nouvelle Étude No. 1, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    2. No. 45 in E Major (1st version after Chopin's Nouvelle Étude No. 2)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    3. No. 45a in D-Flat Major (2nd version after Chopin's Nouvelle Étude No. 2, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    4. No. 46 in G Major, "Menuetto" (after Chopin's Nouvelle Étude No. 3)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    5. No. 48 in F Major (after Chopin's Op. 10, No. 11 and Op. 25, No. 3)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    6. No. 23 in A-Flat Major (1st version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 1, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    7. No. 24 in A-Flat Major (2nd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 1)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    8. No. 25 in A-Flat Major (3rd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 1)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    9. No. 26 in F Minor (1st version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 2)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    10. No. 27 in F Minor, "Waltz" (2nd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 2)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    11. No. 28 in F Minor (3rd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 2, version A)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    12. No. 28 in F Minor (3rd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 2, version B, in octaves)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    13. No. 28a in F-Sharp Minor (4th version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 2, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    14. No. 29 in F Major (1st version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 3)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    15. No. 30 in F Major (2nd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 3, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    16. No. 31 in A Minor (1st version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 4, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    17. No. 32 in F Minor, "Polonaise" (2nd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 4)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    18. No. 32 in F Minor, Op. 25, No. 4, "Trio" (2nd version)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    19. No. 33 in E Minor (1st version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 5)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    20. No. 34 in C-Sharp Minor, "Mazurka" (2nd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 5)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    21. No. 35 in B-Flat Minor (3rd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 5, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    22. No. 36 in G-Sharp Minor, "Study in thirds" (after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 6)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    23. No. 38 in D-Flat Major, "Study in sixths" (after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 8)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    24. No. 39 in G-Flat Major (1st version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 9)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    25. No. 40 in G-Flat Major (2nd version after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 9, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    26. No. 41 in B Minor (after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 10, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    27. No. 42 in A Minor (after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 11)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi

    28. No. 43 in C-Sharp Minor (after Chopin's Op. 25, No. 12, for the left hand alone)

      Composer: Leopold Godowsky

      Performer: Emanuele Delucchi


Born in 1987, Emanuele Delucchi has gained renown both in his native Italy and farther afield for his cool-headed mastery of the 'hyper-virtuoso' composers after Liszt who pushed the boundaries of keyboard technique to it's farthest limits. He is among the foremost modern exponents of Charles-Valentin Alkan, and this is his third album for Piano Classics celebrating both the original works and transcriptions made by Leopold Godowsky. 'For an entr�e into the polyphonic world of Godowsky, Emanuele Delucchi's programme could hardly be bettered,' said Gramophone of Delucchi's programme of the Passacaglia, original Poems and a selection of transcriptions. The performances are distinguished by 'great technical accomplishment and a relaxed, assured empathy': a verdict echoed by Classics Today in reviewing Delucchi's 2017 album of the elaborations and transformations wrought by Godowsky on Chopin's Etudes Op.10: 'every inch a viable contender alongside the Marc-Andr� Hamelin and Carlo Grante reference versions... Delucchi's total comfort with and absorption of Godowsky's serpentine idiom makes itself felt in every measure. Needless to say, I look forward to Delucchi's performances of the remaining studies.' This desire is now granted with the release of the complementary set of works based on Chopin's Op.25 Etudes. Godowsky composed them over a period of decades, and they challenge every facet of the pianist's technique, condensing some studies into a left-hand only part, adding secondary voices to others and taking still others as the basis for free variation and fantasy. He could claim without false modesty that the fingering and pedaling involved in such feats were of 'an often revolutionary character' and in Delucchi he has a dedicated modern advocate. As an introduction to the works on this album we quote Godowsky himself: "the studies' aim is to develop the mechanical, technical and musical possibilities of piano playing, to expand the peculiarly adapted nature of the instrument to polyphonic, polyrhythmic and polydynamic work and to widen the range of it's possibilities in tone coloring".