Conductor(s): Böhm, Karl; Walter, Bruno
Label: Naxos Historical
Genre: Concerto
Period: Classical
Catalogue No: 8.111112
Barcode: 747313311224
Distribution Note(s):
Not available in the United States due to possible copyright restrictions
Release Date: 09/2006

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 (Gieseking) (1939, 1934) (Concerto Recordings, Vol. 3)

This third and final CD of Gieseking�s concerto recordings made during the 1930s features his first recordings of two Beethoven concertos. Recorded in a single day in January 1939, with the eight sides all issued from first or second takes, Gieseking�s account of the Piano Concerto No. 4 is one of moulded delicacy, the light-weight approach particularly apt for the outer movements. In his recording of the Piano Concerto No. 5 �Emperor�, made in Vienna in 1934, Gieseking refreshingly scales down the rhetoric of the first movement and the sentimentality of the Adagio. Whereas in lesser hands, the last movement can lumber heavily along, Gieseking plays it with a spring in his step giving a true feeling of 6/8 rather than 3/4.

Tracklist

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Gieseking, Walter (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden (Orchestra)
Böhm, Karl (Conductor)
1I. Allegro moderato15:01
Gieseking, Walter (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden (Orchestra)
Böhm, Karl (Conductor)
2II. Andante con moto04:15
Gieseking, Walter (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden (Orchestra)
Böhm, Karl (Conductor)
3III. Rondo: Vivace09:08
Gieseking, Walter (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden (Orchestra)
Böhm, Karl (Conductor)
Gieseking, Walter (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)
Walter, Bruno (Conductor)
4I. Allegro19:14
Gieseking, Walter (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)
Walter, Bruno (Conductor)
5II. Adagio un poco moto -06:34
Gieseking, Walter (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)
Walter, Bruno (Conductor)
6III. Rondo: Allegro09:52
Gieseking, Walter (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)
Walter, Bruno (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:04:04