ROMANTIC FESTIVAL 4: Virtuoso Salon Music: GUNNAR JOHANSEN plays GODOWSKY Live 1971

Live 1971, from Frank Cooper's
Romantic Festival 4: Virtuoso Salon Music
GODOWSKY: Three Symphonic Metamorphoses after Themes by Johann Strauss
Wine, Women and Song
The bat
Artist's Life
Encores:
JOHANSEN: There was A Young Lady of Spain
FRIEDMAN: Viennese Dance No. 2
Gunnar JOHANSEN, piano
Live 20 May 1971 Butler University Indianapolis
Frank Cooper writes that no one ever played the three Symphonic Metamorphoses as a group before Johansen played them for him at this Romantic Festival, their excoriating difficulties precluding such a feat. To me it sounds like GJ is having a lot of fun.
Our deepest thanks to Don Rice, whose hand helped make the audio here clearer.

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We definitely don't hear enough of this virtually unknown supervirtuoso!

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Dance, anyone? Well, not just "anyone"! Only with Gunnar Johansen! However, no one stands a chance as he is way too engaged with that "Young Lady of Spain"! O-la-laaaa!