Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris
Philharmonia Orchestra
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Ferruccio Busoni
John (Jean-Baptiste) Loeillet of London
Robert Schumann
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Frédéric Chopin
Francis Poulenc
Claude Debussy
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms
Isaac Albéniz
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Domenico Scarlatti
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Muzio Clementi
Antonio Vivaldi
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
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Interpretation
Ernst Müller, a Swiss piano enthusiast, described Emil Gilels's playing as producing 'tender-sounding thunder', never crude, and that his fortissimo never sounded percussive.
Recording & Production
The recordings on CDs 2 to 13 of this edition are arranged by the composition date of the works, rather than chronologically by Emil Gilels's career.
Performer Biography
Emil Gilels was a pupil of the famous Heinrich Neuhaus, but Neuhaus considered Sviatoslav Richter, who was one year older than Gilels, to be the greater genius.
Performer Biography
At 16, Emil Gilels won the first All-Union Piano Competition in 1933, which brought him to the attention of Comrade Stalin, who called him 'my red-haired devil'.
Performer Biography
The composer Sergei Prokofiev dedicated his Eighth Piano Sonata to Emil Gilels in 1944, and Gilels brilliantly premiered the work.
Performer Biography
Emil Gilels, a great Soviet pianist, was born in Odessa, Ukraine, a port city that also produced other notable musicians like pianists Samuil Feinberg, Shura Cherkassky, and Benno Moiseiwitsch, and violinists David Oistrakh and Nathan Milstein.
Performer Biography
After his triumphant first appearances in the USA in 1955, Emil Gilels responded to rave reviews by saying, 'Wait until you hear Richter!', referring to Sviatoslav Richter who was then unknown in the West.
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