Felix Mendelssohn – Songs without Words – Walter Gieseking (1956/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Felix Mendelssohn – Songs without Words – Walter Gieseking (1956/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:48:40 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Classical
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ EMI Classics
Recorded: No.3 Studio, Abbey Road, London 1956/09/21-23

‘Gieseking achieved a paradox with these recordings: he devoted so much care to them that they seem absolutely artless. The pianist who mastered Beethoven’s epic edifices also had the modesty to efface himself in front of Mendelssohn’s. Not once does he say, “Look at me!” or “Now I’m going to show you how beautiful this is.” He simply plays the music without condescension or apology. However, this is not to say that his interpretations are simple! On the surface, Gieseking is depicting the jolly mischief of Shakespeare’s spirit, but on a lower level, Gieseking finds the darker colors that hint at the possibility, not necessarily realized, of a more maleficent disposition. And perhaps Mendelssohn’s miniatures are less emotionally complex but even here, Gieseking goes beyond their pretty surface and exposes their true Romanticism.’ –Raymond Tuttle, Classical Net

Tracklist:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
17 Songs without Words
1 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 19: No. 1 in E Major, ‘Sweet Remembrance’ 04:50
2 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 19: No. 6 in G Minor, ‘Venetian Boat Song’ 02:35
3 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 30: No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, ‘Venetian Boat Song’ 03:39
4 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 38: No. 4 in A Major, ‘Hope’ 02:41
5 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 38: No. 6 in A-Flat Major, ‘Duetto’ 04:54
6 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 53: No. 2 in E-Flat Major, ‘The Fleecy Cloud’ 02:46
7 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 53: No. 3 in G Minor, ‘Agitation’ 02:54
8 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 53: No. 4 in F Major, ‘Sadness of Soul’ 02:34
9 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 62: No. 1 in G Major, ‘May Breezes’ 02:18
10 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 62: No. 5 in A Minor, ‘Venetian Boat Song’ 02:54
11 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 62: No. 6 in A Major, ‘Spring Song’ 02:50
12 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 67: No. 3 in B-Flat Major, ‘Song of the Pilgrim’ 02:45
13 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 67: No. 4 in C Major, ‘Spinner’s Song’ 01:54
14 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 85: No. 4 in D Major, ‘Elegie’ 02:48
15 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 85: No. 6 in B-Flat Major, ‘Song of the Traveller’ 03:23
16 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 102: No. 3 in C Major, ‘Tarantella’ 01:28
17 6 Songs Without Words, Op. 102: No. 5 in A Major, ‘Piece for Children’ 01:22

Personnel:
Walter Gieseking, piano

About the Mastering 
Four engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London have remastered these historic EMI recordings from their original analogue sources for release in pristine hi-def. Between them, Simon Gibson, Ian Jones, Andy Walter and Allan Ramsay have many years of experience remastering archive recordings for EMI and other record labels. The process always starts with finding all of the records and tapes in EMI’s archive in London and comparing different sources and any previous CD reissues. We consult each recording’s job file, which contains notes about the recording made by the engineer and producer. For example, this sometimes explain why there is more than one set of tapes to choose from. All of the tapes are generally in good condition and we play them on our Studer A80 π inch tape machine, after careful calibration of its replay characteristics.
In order to have the best digital remastering tools at our disposal for the remastering, we transfer from analogue to the digital domain at 96 KHz and 24-bit resolution using a Prism ADA-8 converter and capture the audio to our SADiE Digital Audio Workstation.
–Simon Gibson, January 2012

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