Emil Gilels – Schubert: Piano Quintet “The Trout”; String Quartet “Death And The Maiden” (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:36 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Franz Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A is arguably the most instantly recognisable piece of chamber music in the entire repertoire, and it remains overwhelmingly popular with performers, broadcasters, audiences and recording companies alike. We named it one of Schubert’s best works
This convivial five-movement work by the 22-year‑old composer embodies many defining characteristics that contribute to its enduring popularity, but uppermost among these is the relentless joy at its core.
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Emil Gilels; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, 1812 Overture (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:34 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Classical
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Gilels recorded this work several times, and the dierence to the other stereo recording in print is evident instantly. Just play the rst 10 seconds from the Gilels/Maazel recording and then this one: RCA in 1955 captured a cleaner, better, richer sound than EMI engineers 20 years later. So you are instantly captivated by the sound alone; and then follows a performance with tremendous sweep and boldness. Reiner is denitely instrumental in helping this along: he was a far better conductor than Maazel could ever aspire to. In a word: don’t worry too much about niggling imperfections. This is a performance for the ages. It will stand as a beacon to the possibilities of transmitting a sense of greatness via recordings that had few equals in the 100 years that we have been making records. I might add, lest you think I’m just carried away by it, that I have been living with this recording (on LP) since about 1960 and had something like 22 rival version in my collection at one time. None of the others conveys that same aura of agnicence.
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Emil Gilels – Grieg: Lyric Pieces (1974/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:15 minutes | 976 MB | Genre: Classical
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Late Russian pianist Emil Gilels, considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, lovingly recorded these 20 selections from Grieg’s oeuvre of 66 short Lyric Pieces in 1974. The programme opens and closes with Grieg’s first and very last lyric pieces and includes Butterfly, one of Grieg’s best known compositions.
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Emil Gilels, Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell – Beethoven: 5 Piano Concertos (1968) [Japan 2015]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 274:39 minutes | Front/Rear covers | 7,1 GB
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“Emil Gilels stands out as giant among giants”, wrote Gramophone when the Odessa-born pianist died in 1985. “In terms of virtuosity he was second to none, yet his leonine power was tempered by a delicacy and poetry that few have matched and none has surpassed”. Ludwig van Beethoven was at the heart of Gilels’ repertoire and in 1968 he recorded this complete cycle of the composer’s piano concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra and its long-standing maestro, another musical titan of the era, George Szell.
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Emil Gilels – Piano Concerto No. 3 / Double Concerto In E Flat For 2 Pianos (1965/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:58 minutes | 934 MB | Genre: Classical
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Period Records presents this legacy recording in pristine high-fidelity digital transfer, featuring pianist Emil Gilels with the Radio Orchestra conducted by Kiril Kondrashin, as they perform a programme of Mozart and Beethoven!
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Emil Gilels – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:21 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Classical
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Emil Grigoryevich Gilels[a] (19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) was a Russian pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Following his activities in Brussels, a scheduled tour and American debut at the 1939 New York World’s Fair was aborted because of the outbreak of the Second World War. Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile from Russia, had heard of the reputation of Gilels, and began to listen to Gilels’ radio performances. Rachmaninoff subsequently regarded Gilels as his pianistic successor, and sent him his medal and diploma. This medal, engraved with the profile of Anton Rubinstein, and the diploma were once presented to Rachmaninoff to symbolize his succession from Rubinstein, and Rachmaninoff himself added Gilels’ name to the document. Gilels treasured these relics all his life.
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Emil Gilels – Scarlatti: 26 Keyboard Sonatas by Emil Gilels (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:37:42 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Emil Grigoryevich Gilels[a] (19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) was a Russian pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Gilels was born to a Jewish family on 19 October 1916 (6 October, Old Style) in Odessa (then part of the Russian Empire, and now Ukraine) to Gesya and Grigory Gilels. His father worked as a clerk in a sugar refinery. His sister Elizaveta, three years his junior, was a renowned violinist.
Emil Gilels and his sister, the violinist Elizabeth.
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Emil Gilels, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum – Brahms: The Piano Concertos; Fantasien Op. 116 (1972/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:05:03 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
The concerto sessions took place at a time when we were experimenting with quadraphonic recording, although no Deutsche Grammophon discs were ever issued in that format. Emil Gilels had already made a highly successful recording of the Second Concerto for another company and knew the work backwards, so the sessions were easy, the slow movement in particular requiring very little subsequent editing.
Gilels took the business of recording very seriously and was determined that we should too. For him the sound had to be worked on during the sessions, just like his interpretation. Once we let him try out the piano in eight different positions before he was convinced that the one we had advocated from the beginning was correct!
When Eugen Jochum was asked in an interview a year before his death about the finest recordings of his long and distinguished career, he singled out the Brahms concertos with Gilels for special mention. Considering that Jochum was “only” accompanying a soloist, it is hard to imagine a more eloquent tribute to the discs’ success.
– Klaus Scheibe
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