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Helmut Mauro
One of the advantages of such a comprehensive edition is tracking down rarities, discovering the unpublished, making comparisons. In the recordings of the pianist Walter Gieseking published by Warner Classics you will often find what you are looking for. Not only was he the fastest fingered player, the first to play Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos after the composer, but he was also gifted with a lightning-fast comprehension. He could sight read just about anything, read sheet music on the train, went on stage and played. Memorized, flawless, inspired and thoughtful. For the philosopher, composer and music critic Theodor W. Adorno, Gieseking was simply “unsurpassable”.