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Beethoven / Walter Gieseking: Sonata in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 ("Tempest") - Allegretto, 1940s

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Channel: davidhertzberg · 2010 · Music

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So that there is no question in the mind of the listener, I rely principally on images of the LP and LP jacket in order to document the authenticity of historically important recordings such as these. 

Walter Gieseking (1895-1956) performs the third movement (Allegretto) of Beethoven's piano sonata no. 17 in D minor, Op.  31, No. 2.  I created this video from the LP depicted above, issued on the Angel label, serial number 35352.  All images in this video, with the exception of the 1957 Billboard magazine review of this recording, are taken from the LP and LP jacket.

Note: The Billboard review is carried in the January 19, 1957 edition of the magazine.  Inasmuch as Gieseking died in 1956, it can be assumed that this performance was recorded considerably earlier, perhaps sometime in the mid- to late-1940s.
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If you enjoy Beethoven you may be interested in the following:

Emil Gilels / George Szell, 1968: Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37 (Rondo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeW79SWwvOM

Emil Gilels / George Szell, 1968: Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 15 (Rondo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL4KxbIBW8

"Für Elise" - Wilhelm Kempff: 1964, Deutsche Grammophon : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DSjoHm56Y

Friedrich Gulda: Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1 (1) (Beethoven) - London, 1954: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RwDZsc7K2E

Emil Gilels / Эмиль Гилельс: Klaviersonate Nr. 4 Es-dur, Op. 7, Movement 1 (Beethoven) - 1983: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEfGQ1kBM5o

David Oistrakh: Romance No. 2 in F major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 50: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz4JEYQ8ebU

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Adelaide, song for voice & piano, Op. 46: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qurafBb09JI

Wilhelm Backhaus: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 - London, 1950s, Karl Böhm:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRSTwjTTVZI
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