Thank you so much for your comment! I'm delighted to read that you enjoyed the performance and appreciated those details!

Thanks, Mark! I sure hope this video helps spread the word about this delightful little piece - it would make an attractive addition to just about any concert, even as an encore!

@@Mathieu_Poirier_Piano I agree! You're playing here just sparkles, and it is Godowsky at his most charming! I can't see how this piece wouldn't attract a lot of pianists. This falls into the love-it-immediately category for me!

That's one of my favourite parts to play too! It's like a fairy tale :D

Thanks so much, Tim! For such a short piece, it's surprisingly tricky because of all the detail Godowsky packs into his arrangement (as usual haha), but I'm really glad to hear that you enjoyed it and that you like the sound quality!

To each his or her own, right? I think that in order to enjoy arrangements, especially when they differ quite significantly from the original piece, we sometimes need to forget about the original work for a moment and just try to take in the arrangement for what it is. Otherwise, we'll almost always be disappointed because it's not what we expected from the original, or our criticisms of the arrangement all end up referring back to the original as opposed to criticizing (or praising) the effectiveness of the arrangement as a piece on its own terms. This isn't really fair because a Beethoven-Liszt symphonic transcription, for instance, can never literally be a Beethoven symphony (you would need to listen to the original orchestral work to experience that). I've seen people say the same thing about Rachmaninoff's Kreisler arrangements - "over-the-top, destroyed the charm, grace and simplicity of Kreisler's original pieces, too many chromatic harmonies and embellishments added everywhere." Personally, I adore Rachmaninoff's Kreisler arrangements, but everyone has their own standards for what is too much and what is just enough. Anyway, I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts about the piece!

@@Mathieu_Poirier_Piano "I've seen people say the same thing about Rachmaninoff's Kreisler arrangements - "over-the-top, destroyed the charm, grace and simplicity of Kreisler's original pieces, too many chromatic harmonies and embellishments added everywhere.": Right, that's is why I mentioned him. I think it all comes down to the question of taste. It is an elusive, personal thing, and there is no formula that give the right/wrong answer. As a student of composition, to SVR I give A+, to Godowsky maybe a B+, for his cleverness and harmonic inventiveness. Incidentally, SVR was not immune to going overboard. I do recall that he had one of his early pf. pieces chromaticized at the end of his life--way too much, almost as if he was doing a task he set for himself -- "can I do it to the utmost?" Well, "utmost" he did, but it was not a success musically, again, for my taste. And my taste ain't that bad 🙂 -- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oOCqfthmuK3NY5s.html