Schumann - Walter Gieseking (1951) Davidsbündlertänze, op 6

Fantastic 3d piano playing !
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[@АртемийСталобыть]

No one plays Schumann as Walter does. What he does with sound and pedal is near the edge of magic.

[@3047L-f6m]

it's so great it hurts...

[@andrewthorpe9793]

One of the greats. I have known this performance my school days in 1970's. Cortot, Arrau and Kempff are all good as well..

[@duwir5959]

I love this recording. Even Arrau said, that he was impressed by Giesekings Davidsbündlertänze (Arrau was himself a great Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann pianist).

[@jackatherton0111]

As Arrau said, the greatest performance of what’s become my favorite Schumann work, and one that elicits an emotional identification often missing from Gieseking’s Beethoven and even his Debussy. The poetry is heart stopping and if Gieseking occasionally bangs elsewhere I suspect Robert did too. Raul Doblas Soler comments below that although reissued in 1951 this is Gieseking’s wartime performance.

[@Raulsolerdoblas]

They are the same recording, published twice

[@jackatherton0111]

Raul, don’t have them both to compare but it seems you’re absolutely right.

[@Patafisique]

as Alberto Savinio wrote, he was a centaur, half human half piano

[@lionelthiebaud7081]

Immense pianiste, un peu oublié hélas, sauf des mélomanes avertis, immense version de cette sublime œuvre du génie fabuleux qu'est Schumann

[@relax2234]

Claudio Arrau said, he only heard Davidsbündlertänze played great once, this was by Gieseking.

[@davidcarter3049]

Beethoven: the piano is an inferior instrument
Gieseking: No, listen, it isn’t

[@pablosouffron8277]

I don't think beethoven said that

[@onceltom]

THAT GUY WAS VERY VERY STRONG.

[@foundershinenation8380]

My teacher, Herman Godes, studied with him after WWII.... He told me, true story, that Gieseking milked cows to strengthen his piano hands. One of my fav recordings, have it in vinyl. Check out Herman Godes too. Also, that he was huge like a butcher, but what a pianissimo he had.

[@vb50boy55]

It remember me of times of poetry

[@michelangelomulieri5134]

Wonderful... But on Schumann cortot is almost unequalled..

[@vb50boy55]

Fantastic

[@MichaelTLam]

Why is it a semitone down?

[@molocious]

The other recordings are a semitone up. It's all relative. Who' s right? Ask yourself if the semitone difference affects your reception of the spirit of the music.

[@tediforworld]

გენიოსი ხარ

[@davidjinjikhadze145]

:D

[@flagerpiano]

:)))

[@MS-xp4xm]

диковато и грязновато. но все лирические эпизоды бесподобны!

[@judithmarie5283]

Too heavy on the keys. I prefer Arrau's interpretation.

[@ulfwernernielsen6708]

Judith Marie I agree. Arrau is the greatest Schumann interpreter for ever.

[@kennethdower7425]

Well, Arrau himself was in awe of Gieseking's performance of this work.