Leopold Godowsky plays Beethoven's Sonata No. 26 in E♭ major, Op. 81a(Les Adieux)

[@marksmith3947]

The playing is amazingly fresh. This was only about a year before the stroke which forced him to stop performing, but he plays like a young man who can't contain his excitement.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

This was exactly the style of Godowsky. 11:21 Beethoven (Himseld !) indicates "Vivacissimamente" which means "play as fast as possible and even faster" It must be a run .......

[@laggeman1396]

Such great insight in the music! Technique in service of the message.

[@nickk8416]

WOW! Love his point of view.

[@Barbapippo]

Wonderful, thanks

[@harryk4840]

Qué magnífica interpretación

[@FirstGentleman1]

Godowsky wrote insanely difficult piano music, but he could play as well. As I now know.

[@giuseppetarabella4018]

yes, but his studies are not music, just noise

[@amedeofabris1268]

​​@@giuseppetarabella4018 have you heard his Java suite ? It's so good, check it out!

[@kakoou3362]

@@giuseppetarabella4018when played poorly, anything will be noise, when it is hard and complex, it is easy to play poorly

[@Cayres18]

Que ouro, nunca tinha ouvido este

[@Dylonely_9274]

Nice.

[@HofmannScores]

GREATEST LES ADIEUX!

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Not True! Come on! Dimitri Bashkirov her teacher Anastasia Virsaladze teach saying to Bashkirov the most important lesson is the love of beautiful colorful piano sound! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Godowsky=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Godowsky=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg Murray Perahia Alexei Lubimov Dinu Lipatti Stanislav Igolinsky! More powerful louder than Godowsky=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than Godowsky's technique!

[@olivierdrouin2701]

1809 : année solaire : quatuor 10 , concerto 5 ; grandioses Sonates 24 , 26 , 26 ; intimissimres . Lieder opus 83 : entre les deux....

[@kamint2258]

編曲好きのゴドフスキーが、真面目にベートーベンへ敬意を表して弾いた素晴らしい演奏👏🎹✨✨😊

[@josephli7164]

He should record more and compose and arrange less.