Chopin Godowsky Etude 13 for Left Hand Saperton Rec 1952

David Saperton was born in Pennsylvania on October 29,1889. In 1924,he married Godowsky's elder daughter, Vanita.That year,Josef Hofmann appointed him to the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where Jorge Bolet,Abbey Simon and Shura Cherkassky studied with him. Saperton had a prodigious technique, but like Josef Lhevinne,he devoted himself mostly to teaching after 1918. Sidney Foster, one of David Saperton's best known students writes, " He died relatively unknown in 1970 at the age of 80 -mourned only by a son ,a handful of devoted students and a few ardent cognoscenti."
This Etude is a transcription for left hand of Chopin's Etude Op 10, No 6.
There are several other perfomances of this etude on YouTube. However, none of them have the imprimatur of authenticity that this recording by David Saperton carries.

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[noahgian]

This is wonderful! I love how he does not hide the arpeggio accompaniment even though the melody still sings clearly above it. In all the other recordings I've heard, which are quite good nonetheless, the melody is too dominant, but here the glorious details are revealed.

[StanislavRodionov]

-good-()

[MegatronG1X]

amazing!