Nimbus' The Music of Walter Gieseking is highly unusual in that it is a chamber music album on which all of the instruments are played by one person: Karen Haid. Haid performs on flute and on piano, and in piano duet pieces she plays both parts. The playing itself throughout is excellent, and her dedication to the cause of Gieseking as a composer is admirable. However, not all musicians who are great interpreters make for good composers, and Gieseking's music is surprisingly challenged in such respect. Written mostly in the ...
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Nimbus' The Music of Walter Gieseking is highly unusual in that it is a chamber music album on which all of the instruments are played by one person: Karen Haid. Haid performs on flute and on piano, and in piano duet pieces she plays both parts. The playing itself throughout is excellent, and her dedication to the cause of Gieseking as a composer is admirable. However, not all musicians who are great interpreters make for good composers, and Gieseking's music is surprisingly challenged in such respect. Written mostly in the 1920s and '30s and possessed to some degree of technical flourish, Gieseking's music shows an inexact grasp of impressionist style and is rhythmically earthbound. Among the more interesting selections, the Spiel um ein Kinderlied is a set of variations on "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" that shows imagination in its choice of pianistic textures, though over time his seeming inability to vary the basic tune in an interesting way causes the variation set to wear out its welcome. Of the...
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