Cherkassky plays Saint-Saëns / Godowsky "Le Cygne"

Transcription by Godowsky in 1927, recording by Cherkassky in 1956.
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"Leopold Godowsky" speaks:
I worked honestly with the highest ideals for my chosen art and beloved instrument. I have accomplished in my field more and greater things than all my contemporary colleagues. Yet real recognition and material benefits were not given to me; but crediting me sparingly and grudgingly, my life ebbed, and now I find myself ill and poor. A few know the importance of my having lived. When I am but a memory my works and my influence will begin to live...
(From a letter of Leopold to his daughter, Dagmar Godowsky, written after he had a paralytic stroke in 1930)
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Meravigliosa...

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Toutes les étoiles du ciel !!!!!!!!!!!!

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@libetta
All deserve attention, because of different recording years and format, either live or studio...
Cheers!

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@libetta
Well said!
By the way, knowing your passion for Cherkassky, have you listened to his Tchaikovsky #1 performance?
If not, take a look at watch?v=V-nmEGbfx4U
Cheers!

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@libetta
Which years and what formats?