Even without considering wheather Godowsky is a great composer or not (Indeed I find him an excelent composer, people who say the contrary is because don't know the "other" really original pieces that Godowsky composed.). I am a pianist also. I love great performances. Indeed, with all such marvellous pianists we had in XXth century, it's difficult to know who's the most gifted one: Horowitz, Cziffra, Godowsky, Grainger, Rachmaninoff, Artur Rubinstein, Richter, Pollini, Perahia, Kissin, Ashkenazy, Lazar Berman, Earl Wild, etc,..., but there's a true difference: the people who made something more... like Horowitz in his transcriptions of some works. Indeed Horowitz version of the Wedding march is better than the original Liszt's version. And condidering the fact that Godowsky learned piano almost all by himself, I have to consider him the greatest pianist of all time, superior to Liszt. Godowsky devoted his entire life to developing the extreme pianism. His pieces often say: "Unplayable" as his impromptus (like some of Liszt). Buy this CD!. Hamelin made a good job in recording them, I'd like to listen to Horowitz or Cziffra playing them, it would be astonishing...