The whole conception of performance in these days is too heavy, loud and blatant, said Walter Gieseking in 1926, expressing his preference for "more delicacy and ethereal refinement of tone". That...
The affinity of Walter Gieseking for the music of Debussy is nothing less than legendary. As Gramophone magazine wrote: "Debussy and Gieseking form an inseparable union where creator and recreator...
WALTER Gieseking (1895-1956) has long been regarded as one of the supreme interpreters of Debussy, his recordings having achieved almost definitive status. But it's generally his later recordings...