Poet of the Piano

Walter Gieseking was truly an aesthete of the piano and a perfectionist passionate about developments in recording technique. This collection – Poet of the Piano – focuses on his intense recording sessions of the 1950s, into which he put his full energy and soul before his untimely death. Including several tracks made available digitally for the first time, such as Chopin’s Berceuse and Schubert’s Impromptus, it highlights the pianist’s unsurpassable talent from baroque music to the French impressionists.