Gulda, a brilliant master of rhythm, uncompromisingBach interpreter and jazz musician, is heard at hisbest when performing Chopin, whose works appearin Gulda’s earliest concert programmes. His secret inplaying Chopin with so much vitality lay in the inimitablemix of rhythmic strictness, cantabile tenderness andcontrolled outbursts.Beethoven was an important composer for Gulda. Thetheme and variation form afforded both of them theopportunity to demonstrate their respective abilitiesand showcase their remarkable skills. And what bettershowcase than the Diabelli Variations?Although this fourth instalment of the SWR GuldaEdition includes only well-known compositions,Friedrich Gulda’s extraordinary sense of sound,sophisticated touch and rhythmic vitality coax newfacets out of these works so that we hear them from afresh perspective.
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