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Pfitzner, Grieg: Concertos For Piano / Walter Gieseking


Release Date: 07/23/1996 
Label:  Music & Arts   Catalog #: 925   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  Hans Pfitzner,  Edvard Grieg
Performer:  Walter Gieseking
Conductor:  A. Bittner,  Robert Heger
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra,  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: n/a 
Length: 1 Hours 6 Mins. 

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This CD is reissued by ArkivMusic.

Works on This Recording

1. Concerto for Piano in E flat major, Op. 31 by Hans Pfitzner
Performer:  Walter Gieseking (Piano)
Conductor:  A. Bittner
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1922; Germany 
 Date of Recording: 12/6/1943 
2. Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16 by Edvard Grieg
Performer:  Walter Gieseking (Piano)
Conductor:  Robert Heger
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1868/1907; Norway 
 Date of Recording: 1944 
Notes: The broadcast that this recording is made from probably took place sometime between July and September 1944. The orchestra and conductor cannot be definitively identified (Furtwängler has been attributed to this performance). 

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