Emil Gilels
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Gilels was born in Odessa to a musical family; both his parents were musicians. He began studying the piano at six under Yakov Tkach, making his first public debut at the age of 12 in June 1929. In 1930 Gilels entered the Odessa Conservatory where he was coached by Berta Reingbald, whom Gilels credited as his first formative influence.
In 1933 Gilels won the newly-founded All Soviet Union Piano Competition at age 16. After graduating from the Odessa Conservatory in 1935, he moved to Moscow, where he studied under the famous piano teacher Heinrich Neuhaus until 1937. A year later, at age 21, he won the Ysaÿe International Festival in Brussels, beating such competitors as Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Moura Lympany.
Gilels was the first Soviet artist to be allowed to travel extensively in the West. After the war, he toured Europe starting from 1947 as a concert pianist, and made his American debut in 1955 playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in Philadelphia. He taught as a professor for the Moscow Conservatory after 1952. In his later years he remained in Russia and rarely ventured abroad.
He was the winner of the prestigious Stalin Prize in 1946, the Order of Lenin in 1961 and 1966 and the Lenin Prize in 1962.
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Gilels: Schumann - Piano Sonata No. 1, Liszt & Chopin - Piano Works
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Gilels: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 4 & 5 "Emperor"
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olblackcat
He plays everything exactly as I want to hear it. Amazing! [2]
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HarmMoney
He plays everything exactly as I want to hear it. Amazing!
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Outstanding Beethoven recordings. [3]
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Outstanding Beethoven recordings. [2] Appassionata <3
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Outstanding Beethoven recordings
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maxriley
The Grief stuff I have of him playing is pretty, pretty, pretty good.
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1982 - Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 Hammerklavier (Berlin). 1984 - Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 Hammerklavier (Moscow). 1984 - Scriabin: Third Sonata (Moscow).
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1972 - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 and Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 (cond. Jochum). 1973 - Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 Appassionata. 1973 - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595 (cond. Boehm). 1974 - Grieg: Lyric Pieces. 1974 - Prokofiev: Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84. 1978 - Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op 58
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1957 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (cond. Ludwig). 1957 - Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4 in F sharp major, Op. 30. 1959 - Schubert: Forellenquintett (Trout Quintet) Quintet for Piano, Violin, Violoncello, and Contrabass in A major D667 Amadeus Quartet. 1968 - Medtner: Piano Sonata No. 10 in A minor, Op. 38 No. 1. Sonata Reminiscenza. 1972 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 4
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too many: 1935 - Liszt: Fantasia on Themes from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. 1951 - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9. 1954 - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 (cond. Cluytens) 1955 - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (cond. Cluytens). 1958 - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83 (cond. Reiner).
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