The art of gentle attack

The Independent - London | November 17, 1995| | Copyright

Last Friday, in the regular Radio 3 series, Mining the Archive, Susan Sharpe got Peter Donohoe to talk about Walter Gieseking, the legendary interpreter of Debussy's piano music, and introduced excerpts from his two surviving BBC recordings. Gieseking was born 100 years ago and died in 1956, just before his 61st birthday. Donohoe pointed out that the BBC caught this physical and intellectual giant in his decline - an early one, because Gieseking boasted that he didn't need to practise. Donohoe suggested that such naturally, if superhumanly, gifted musicians sometimes don't know how to ...

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