STANDCHEN Strauss Gieseking

Walter Gieseking plays his piano arrangement of Richard Strauss's lieder standchen .78RPM (One picture of Strauss countryhouse and his wife portrait and Gieseking's signature engraved in the Odeon record. )
Original lieder lyrics by Friedrich Von Shack :

Open up! Open up, but softly,
my child so as to wake no one from slumber!
The brook hardly murmers,
hardly a leaf on bush or hedge
trembles in the wind!
All around softly, my dear, so that nothing is disturbed.
lay your hand gently on the door handle.
As gently as the steps of elves.
skipping gingerly over flowers,
fly easily out into the moon-filled night
and glide to me in the garden.
All around, the blossoms by the rippling brook are slumbering.
even in sleep emitting gragrance.
only Love is awake.
Sit down here under the linden trees
the twilight falls mysteriously.
The nightingale above our heads
shall dream of our kisses.
and the rose,
when she awakes in the morning
shall grow sublimely
from the blissful raptures of the night.

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• Standchen
• RichardStrauss
• WalterGieseking
• 78RPM

[sfkcbf]

Gieseking had a most remarkable natural piano technique. Apparently, he did not need to practice so many hours as some other concert pianists. He said, "One does washing only when one has dirty clothes."

[allegroconmoto]

@sfkcbf

Rattalino says that Gieseking's technique was not transcendental as Backaus,Rubistein,Horowitz,Arr­au technique but he has the gift of original interpretative ideas and creates unmistakable sonorities.

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Perfect combination, Gieseking's rapturous ripples and silvery, svelte singing(on the piano,of course!)with Strauss's sensibilité for mood and moment in song. And your choice & timing of beautiful images....A pure delight. Thank you so much.

[allegroconmoto]

Thanks for your kind appraisals !In fact the Gieseking's transcription conjugate in an original and impalpable way the Strauss and Von Shack poetics.

[suzettegm]

Wonderful video, thanks for sharing!

[Noshirm]

I've never heard this version before! How beautiful it is, and how exquisitely Gieseking plays it! (:-D)

[jorgeliebermann]

Gran pianista.Maestro de mi profesor.Lo escuché en el Colón.Pero era un nazi.

[morinoroba]

Beautiful music,beautiful performance,beautiful pictures!!! Grazie :-)

[uffolinella]

Grazie per questa bellissima musica!