Deryk:

>How do they [the Godowsky studies] compare with Hamelin?  I have a
>video of  Hamelin in concert and he can play them live as well.

I was looking for the Hamelin set but came across this Berezovsky disc
and opted for that instead.  I have not heard Hamelin's.


>BTW "transcriptions" is not really an accurate term.  LG himself called
>them studies (I presume we're talking about Godowsky's version of the
>etudes?)
>
>While the left-hand ones (22 out of 53 IIRC) do tend to be faithful to
>the original (and a major source for Ravel when he was writing his LH
>concerto) the rest go way beyond mere transcribing.

Those are the ones, and they sure do.

Mitch Friedfeld