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The Russian Piano Tradition - Emil Gilels (Early Recordings) | APR APR5663

The Russian Piano Tradition - Emil Gilels (Early Recordings)

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Cat No: APR5663

Barcode: 5024709156634

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th April 2007

Contents

Artists

Emil Gilels (piano)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Yakov Zak (piano)
Lev Oborin (piano)
USSR RTV Large Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Piano Sonata no.3 in C major, op.2 no.3

Liszt, Franz

Grandes Etudes (6) de Paganini, S141
» no.5 in E major 'La chasse'
Hungarian Rhapsodies (19), S244
» no.6 in D flat major
» no.9 in E flat major 'Carnival in Pest'

Loeillet, John

Gigue

Prokofiev, Sergei

Piano Sonata no.2 in D minor, op.14

Scarlatti, Domenico

Keyboard Sonata in C major, K159 'La caccia'
Keyboard Sonata in G major, K125

Schumann, Robert

Fantasiestucke (8), op.12
» no.7 Traumes Wirren
Spanisches Liederspiel, op.74
» no.10 Der Kontrabandiste
Toccata in C major, op.7

Artists

Emil Gilels (piano)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Yakov Zak (piano)
Lev Oborin (piano)
USSR RTV Large Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
USSR State Symphony Orchestra

About

One of an initial four titles in a comprehensive survey of the many great pianists who worked in Russia in the Soviet era. The bulk of the issues will be divided into 'schools' which represent the three main teachers of this period - Neuhaus, Goldenweiser and Igumnov - and their pupils.
 
Along with Sviatoslav Richter (to feature later), Emil Gilels was regarded as the greatest of the Soviet pianists and, as he was allowed to travel to the west, he become know as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Latterly he became known as a great player of Beethoven & Brahms. Here, in a selection of his earliest recordings, we see a different side to his talent as he reveals an astonishing virtuosity in such warhorses as the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies and the Schumann Toccata.
 
Balancing the recital we also present the earliest of what were to be many Beethoven recordings and a performance of Prokofiev’s 2nd Sonata which reminds us why he was the dedicatee of that composer’s 8th, and greatest, Sonata. 
 
Scarlatti: Sonata / Loeillet: Gigue / Schumann: Der Kontrabandiste/Toccata, recorded in Moscow in 1935
Schumann:Traumes Wirren, recorded in Moscow in 1937
Liszt: Paganini Étude/Hungarian Rhapsody No 6, recorded in Moscow in 1940
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 9, recorded in Moscow in 1951
Beethoven: Sonata No 3, recorded in Moscow in 1952
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 2, recorded in Moscow in 1950

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