This disc is part of a series of releases devoted to Godowsky by the Russian-trained and now Swiss-based pianist Konstantin Scherbakov. An exponent of the fiery Russian school, Scherbakov cut his eyeteeth with some well-regarded Rachmaninov and has won acclaim for his handling of the piano acrobatics of Godowsky, a Polish-American virtuoso of the early twentieth century who pushed the piano to its limits. Here he takes on the considerable challenge of Godowsky's transcriptions of Bach's solo cello suites, odd works whose ...
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This disc is part of a series of releases devoted to Godowsky by the Russian-trained and now Swiss-based pianist Konstantin Scherbakov. An exponent of the fiery Russian school, Scherbakov cut his eyeteeth with some well-regarded Rachmaninov and has won acclaim for his handling of the piano acrobatics of Godowsky, a Polish-American virtuoso of the early twentieth century who pushed the piano to its limits. Here he takes on the considerable challenge of Godowsky's transcriptions of Bach's solo cello suites, odd works whose difficulties are more interpretive than technical. Transcribing these works for piano might seem to miss their point in a fundamental way, for a good portion of their appeal in their original form derives from the way Bach manages to imply whole realms of counterpoint with just a single line of cello music, augmented by double and triple stops. Godowsky fills in all the counterpoint. He described these works as versions of Bach's suites "very freely transcribed and adapted for the...
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