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Emil Gilels Early Recordings Vol 3

Gilels 1935-55 – exhumed recordings now on

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Franz Liszt, Fryderyk Chopin, Domenico Scarlatti

Genre:

Instrumental

Label: Naxos

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 78

Mastering:

Stereo
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Catalogue Number: 8111386

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(16) Polonaises, Movement: No. 3 in A, Op. 40/1, 'Military' Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
(16) Polonaises, Movement: No. 6 in A flat, Op. 53, 'Heroic' Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
(4) Ballades, Movement: No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fantasia on themes from Mozart's Figaro and Don Gi Franz Liszt, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Franz Liszt, Composer
Grandes études de Paganini, Movement: No 3 in G sharp minor, 'La Campanella' Franz Liszt, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Franz Liszt, Composer
Grandes études de Paganini, Movement: No 5 in E, 'La Chasse' Franz Liszt, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Franz Liszt, Composer
(19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movement: No. 6 in D flat Franz Liszt, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Franz Liszt, Composer
(19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movement: No. 9 in E flat (Carnival in Pest) Franz Liszt, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Franz Liszt, Composer
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: B minor, Kk27 (L449) Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: A (L345) Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: G (L487) Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: D minor (L422) Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: C (L104) Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: E (L23) Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: A (L395) Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano
Few pianists have possessed a more comprehensive, magisterial technique or musical integrity than Emil Gilels (his early volatility later calming into greater reflection). And here, in Naxos’s third volume, this time of recordings dating from 1935 to 1955, you will at once hear those salient characteristics that prompted awe and envy among even Gilels’s finest colleagues. First and foremost (even in dated sound) is what his teacher Heinrich Neuhaus called ‘an elemental virtuoso gift’ and a sound ‘rich in noble metal, 20-carat gold that we find in the voices of the great singers’.

Gilels was both the grandest and most lyric of virtuosos. His Scarlatti is warm-hearted and romantic in a way current in Russia at the time of these recordings; and if his Chopin is more sober-suited, less unforgettably exultant and heroic than, say, Rubinstein’s, it is never without Gilels’s indelible quality. His Liszt, on the other hand, is overwhelming in its pulverising strength and brilliance (try the final pages of the Figaro Fantasy), a display of formidable but effortless virtuosity complemented by that seamless legato and cantabile for which he was famous. A special thanks, then, to all those who have made this issue possible, to the inexhaustible piano archive housed at the University of Maryland, to Ward Marston for his restoration and to Judith Raynor for her unearthing of new biographical information.

Emil Gilels Early Recordings Vol 3

(16) Polonaises, Movement: No. 3 in A, Op. 40/1, 'Military'

(16) Polonaises, Movement: No. 6 in A flat, Op. 53, 'Heroic'

(4) Ballades, Movement: No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Fantasia on themes from Mozart's Figaro and Don Gi

Grandes études de Paganini, Movement: No 3 in G sharp minor, 'La Campanella'

Grandes études de Paganini, Movement: No 5 in E, 'La Chasse'

(19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movement: No. 6 in D flat

(19) Hungarian Rhapsodies, Movement: No. 9 in E flat (Carnival in Pest)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: B minor, Kk27 (L449)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: A (L345)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: G (L487)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: D minor (L422)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: C (L104)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: E (L23)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: A (L395)

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