Title: WALTER GIESEKING PLAYS LYRIC PIECES BY EDVARD GRIEG
Year: 1956
Category: CLASSICAL,BLUECLASSICS,PIANO
- 1. Waltz, Op. 12 No 2 01:50
- 2. Album Leaf, Op. 12 No 7 01:16
- 3. Berceuse, Op. 38 No 1 02:38
- 4. Melody, Op. 38 No 3 01:48
- 5. Butterfly, Op. 43 No 1 01:44
- 6. Solitary Traveller, Op. 43 No 2 02:00
- 7. In My Native Country, Op. 43 No 3 02:23
- 8. Little Bird, Op. 43 No 4 01:45
- 9. Erotikon, Op. 43 No 5 02:54
- 10. To the Spring, Op. 43 No 6 02:37
- 11. Album Leaf, Op. 47 No 2 03:03
- 12. Melody, Op. 47 No 3 03:39
- 13. Halling, Op. 47 No 4 01:20
- 14. Shepherd's Boy, Op. 54 No 1 04:26
- 15. March of the Dwarfs, Op. 54 No 3 03:15
- 16. Notturno, Op. 54 No 4 03:49
- 17. Bell Ringing, Op. 54 No 6 03:17
- 18. Home-Sickness, Op. 57 No 6 03:39
- 19. French Serenade, Op. 62 No 3 01:47
- 20. Phantom, Op. 62 No 5 03:01
- 21. Home-Ward, Op. 62 No 6 02:32
- 22. From Early Years, Op. 65 No 1 04:56
- 23. Peasant's Song, Op. 65 No 2 01:55
- 24. Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op. 65 No 6 06:14
- 25. Grandmother's Minuet, Op. 68 No 2 02:04
- 26. At Your Feet, Op. 68 No 3 02:43
- 27. At the Cradle, Op. 68 No 5 02:53
- 28. Summer Evening, Op. 71 No 2 02:16
- 29. Puck, Op. 71 No 3 01:39
- 30. Peace of the Woods, Op. 71 No 4 04:46
- 31. Remembrances, Op. 71 No 7 01:41
- Walter Gieseking - piano
WALTER GIESEKING PLAYS LYRIC PIECES BY EDVARD GRIEG
by Walter Gieseking
Lyric Pieces (Norwegian: Lyriske stykker) is a collection of 66 short pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published in 10 volumes, from 1867 (Op. 12) to 1901 (Op. 71). The collection includes several of his best known pieces, such as "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" ("Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen"), "To Spring" ("Til våren"), "March of the Trolls" ("Trolltog"), and "Butterfly" ("Sommerfugl"). The theme of the first piece in the set, "Arietta", was one of the composer's favorite melodies. He used it to complete the cycle in his last lyric piece, "Remembrances" ("Efterklang") — this time as a waltz.
Walter Gieseking performs 31 of these lyric pieces in what originally was released as two LPs on Angel Records (35450 and 35451), recorded 22–23 September 1956 in London, shortly before Gieseking died.
Walter Wilhelm Gieseking (5 November 1895 – 26 October 1956) was a French-born German pianist and composer. Gieseking was renowned for his subtle touch, pedaling, and dynamic control—particularly in the music of Debussy and Ravel; he made complete recordings of all their published works which were extant during his life. He also recorded most of Mozart's solo piano works.
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