Edvard Grieg - 37 Lyric Pieces / REMASTERED (Century's recording: Walter Gieseking)

Gieseking recorded the Lyric Pieces in 1956, shortly before his death, having recorded five of them eight years previously, in 1948. The differences are marginal but illuminating, yet in both versions you will hear playing where a truly transcendental pianism is at the service of a total affinity with Grieg's elusive idiom. In the Waltz (Op.12 No.2) Gieseking's delectable lightness is achieved with the most audaciously spare pedaling (a lesson for all less aurally aware pianists). In Grandmother's minuet (Op.68 No.2) he gives us a spry and elegantly tripping old lady, but in Puck (Op.71 No.3) and March of the dwarfs (Op.54 No.3) we are made aware of sinister and supernatural as well as playful possibilities. A unique artist, Gieseking's sublime indifference to difficulty allowed him to recreate with supersensitive antennae the very heart of the matter...

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