Special offer. Emil Gilels: Early Recordings Volume 2
All tracks recorded in the USSR, 1937-1954
Emil Gilels (piano)
Special offer. Emil Gilels: Early Recordings Volume 2
All tracks recorded in the USSR, 1937-1954
Emil Gilels (piano)
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healthy doses of both tumultuousness and poignant delicacy
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Producer: Jonathan Summers Audio Restoration Engineer: Ward Marston
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Awards and reviews
September 2010
healthy doses of both tumultuousness and poignant delicacy
October 2010
In large-scale sonatas by Glazunov, Medtner and Prokofiev, his playing glows with conviction and includes passagework spun off with an all-Russian legato. Then, his outwardly formidable and unsmiling demeanour on the concert platform is erased in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Chant sans paroles" of a beguiling charm