Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Walter Gieseking
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8111353
Release: 2009
Size: 174 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Bach: Italian Concerto, BWV971
01. I. (Allegro)
02. II. Andante
03. III. Presto
Bach: Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV825
04. I. Praeludium
05. IV. Sarabande
06. V. Menuet I-II
07. VI. Giga
Bach: Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV829
08. I. Preambulum
09. II. Allemande
10. III. Corrente
11. IV. Sarabande
12. V. Tempo di Minuetto
13. VI. Passepied
14. VII. Gigue
Bach: Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV830
15. I. Toccata
16. II. Allemande
17. III. Corrente
18. IV. Air
19. V. Sarabande
20. VI. Tempo di gavotta
21. VII. Gigue
Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816
22. VIII. Gigue
23. Bach: Cantata BWV147 ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 ‘Tempest’
24. I. Largo – Allegro
25. II. Adagio
26. III. Allegretto
Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op. 33
27. No. 1 in E-Flat Major
Walter Gieseking’s interpretations of Bach in the early years of his career gained him laurels for “his control over shades of tone, especially over infinite gradations in the range between piano and pianissimo, the clear definition of his agile finger-work, and the firm outlines of his rhythm and phrasing… This style, so lucid and so rhythmical, is the perfect vehicle for Bach’s keyboard music”.
Gieseking’s 1931 account of Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata also won him contemporary critical accolades: “Perfect playing matched with perfect recording. I know of no better interpretation of this sonata… a splendid achievement, one of the high water marks of piano recording”.