Marc-André Hamelin - Étude No. 1 in A minor 'Triple Étude, after Chopin'

Описание: Pf: Marc-André Hamelin, 1992

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Rarities of Piano Music 1992: Live Recordings from the Husum Festival

℗ 2007 Danacord
Released on: 2007-04-24

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Huge thanks to madlovba3 for providing the sheet music to me for this etude.
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"Between 1894 and 1914 Leopold Godowsky published his extraordinary collection of Studies on Chopin's Etudes; these are fifty-four in number. There is evidence, judging from back-cover listings in early editions of these pieces, that a further eleven studies were at least conceived and very possibly even written out. One of these was to have been a contrapuntal combination of Chopin's op.10/2, op.25/4, and op.25/11, a tantalizing idea to be sure. It has always been the desire of many die-hard pianophiles to find out how in the world Godowsky was able to pull off such a bizarre compositional stunt while having the end result remain musically coherent. There has been hope that the manuscript still exists, but the greater likelihood is that it was lost or destroyed during World War II, along with the other unpublished studies.

The present étude was written at the suggestion of my friend Donald Manildi who, on the basis of my reworking of op.10/5 (Étude no.10 in this volume) thought somehow that I could perhaps come up with something approaching Godowsky's contrapuntal feat. I took great pleasure in writing this little piece, especially after realizing that the first eight bars fit so well together. It gets considerably more complicated afterwards, since all three studies have widely different structures and harmonic rhythms; thus it becomes necessary for one of them to dominate at any time, while the other two are made to conform to it. All three of them do precisely that here, in turn.

It goes almost without saying that this étude should be played with the utmost articulational clarity; the various elements from each study should always be as clearly discernible as possible, even when relegated to the background." -M.A.H.

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