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Walter Gieseking’s Bach: The “Prima Vista” Klavier

Jed Distler

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To tie in with the 1950 anniversary marking J.S. Bach’s […]
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Album Title: Walter Gieseking: Complete Bach Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Reference Recording: None for this collection

  • BACH, J.S.:
    Six Partitas; Overture in the French Style; Two & Three-Part Inventions; The Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II; Toccata in C minor BWV 811; Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue; Fantasia in C minor BWV 906; Fantasia & Fugue in A minor BWV 944; Capriccio on the Departure of a Dear Brother in B-flat major BWV 992; Little Preludes
  • SCHUMANN, ROBERT:
    Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54

    Soloists: Walter Gieseking (piano)

    Berlin Philharmonic, Wilhelm Furtwängler

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