Godowsky : Vingt-deux études d’après les Etudes de Chopin. Ilic.

Piano International (May, 2012)
Godowsky began writing his famous series of studies on Chopin’s Etudes in the early 1890s. By 1914, a total of 53 had been published. Twenty-two were for the left hand alone and can be said to have revolutionised piano writing for a single hand. All 53 present formidable challenges to anyone brave enough to take them on, but the left hand studies are particularly demanding with their ingenious polyphony, counterpoint and fingerings bristling with difficulties not always obvious to an audience.

Moreover, while any performance of single hand music must convince the listener that two hands are playing, the visual delight of seeing it achieved is absent on a disc; …