The Indonesian musician impresses in his debut solo recording of Godowsky’s Java Suite and Stravinsky’s piano arrangement of Petrushka ...

We normally associate Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) with heroic circus pianism, as witness his preposterously difficult elaborations of Chopin’s etudes, as if these weren’t already difficult enough.

The 12 pieces in Leopold Godowsky’s Java Suite reflect the sights and sounds that impressed him during his 1922‑23 Far East concert tour. Their impressionistic textures and subtle mood shifts ...

Tobias Borsboom’s recording of the Java Suite coincides with the centenary of its publication. This is, I think, only the fourth recording of the complete work. The first, as recently as 1999, was ...

Godowsky’s Java Suite was inspired by the traditional music and culture of Java, Indonesia. I love how he imitated the sound of gamelan. Revisiting it brings back good memories.

Godowsky, Tansman The sounds of the Javanese gamelan have long excited the interest of composers, from William Crotch to Debussy and onwards. The Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist Leopold ...

London Julian Chan piano Wigmore Hall, Wed 12 Jun at 13:00 Godowsky: Java-Suite Julian Chan, Piano Buy tickets Read more ...

Inhalt (el contenido): Zunächst hören Sie meine Einführung! – Leopold Godowsky: Java-Suite (Die Gärten von Buitenzorg!) – Stephen Hough spielt – Drei Tänze aus Java-Suite III, Nr. 7 – Konstantin Scher ...