''Germanic rather than Austrian, public oratory rather than confidences, noble prose rather than poetry'': such expressions, JOC suggested in her original review, could be applied to this live recording of a recital given by Emil Gilels in the Salzburg Mozarteum a day after Mozart's 214th birthday. I yield to no one in my admiration for this great Russian pianist, but I have to admit that this is one record of his that I would not wish to play often. The CD's accompanying booklet mentions the remark, made by a member of the audience, that ''Gilels played Mozart at the Great Gate of Kiev'', no doubt that is preferable to the Dresden china approach, and it is not altogether out of place in pieces like the A minor Sonata and the D minor Fantasia, but it does make the little B flat Sonata (with all repeats) sound terribly serious and terribly long. Fortunately the Paisiello Variations do not have repeats, and it must be said that Gilels's account of the sixth variation (in semiquaver triplets) is breathtaking. Unlike JOC I found the audience's coughs rather more than a ''very occasional'' distraction, but perhaps the CD makes them more obtrusive.'