Carlo Grante

Debussy:
Images 1&2
Estampes
Arabesque No. 1

Grante:
Debussy-Pastiche

Casella:
à la maniére de Debussy

Dukas:
La plainte, au loin d'un faune

Piana: Image d'un faun

New book by CARLO GRANTE       
 
FUNDAMENTALS OF PIANO METHODOLOGY
soon available in English
Published by
RUGGINENTI EDITORE
www.rugginenti.it

THE GODOWSKY EDITION, VOLUME 7: TRANSCRIPTIONS AND PARAPHRASES, ALBENIZ TO RICHARD STRAUSS. ALBENIZ-GODOWSKY: Triana from Iberia, Book II, No. 3 (concert arrangement); Tango in D, Op. 165 No. 2 (concert version). BIZET-GODOWSKY: Adagietto from L'Arlésienne. BOHM-GODOWSKY: Calm As The Night (Still wie die Nacht). KREISLER-GODOWSKY: Rondino on a theme by Beethoven. SAINT-SAËNS-GODOWSKY: The Swan. STRAUSS-GODOWSKY: Ständchen (Serenade), Op. 17 No. 2. GODOWSKY: Symphonische Metamorphosen Johann Strauss'cher Themen, Drei Walzer-paraphrasen für das Pianoforte zum Concert Vortrag: Künstlerleben; Die Fledermaus; Wein, Weib und Gesang. Total time: 65:37. DDD. Music&Arts CD-1259(1) UPC # 0-17685-12592-8.

Transcription is the genre most generously represented in Godowsky's compositional output, and the one for which he is best known; he made piano transcriptions (and études), of various kinds, from works by Bach, Schubert, Chopin, and others. But he also left another body of works whose originality and coherence continue to surprise: his piano paraphrases. This album features virtuosic "re-compositions" by several 19th and 20th century composers, some quite faithful to the originals, others deviating drastically from their sources. Carlo Grante's first six volumes of The Godowsky Edition have received world-wide acclaim.

ritratti di pianisti italiani
"portaits of Italian pianists"
Hosted by Luca Ciammarighi
Carlo Grante is interviewed and some recordings of his are heard
 
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