Emil Gilels: Early Recordings Vol. 3

Emil Gilels: Early Recordings Volume 3 All tracks recorded in the USSR, 1935-1955 Chopin: Polonaise No. 3 in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 'Military' Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Liszt: Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, S697 arr Busoni Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 'La Campanella' Grande Étude de Paganini, S. 141 No. 5 'La Chasse' Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 6 in D flat major Hungarian Rhapsody, S244 No. 9 in E flat major 'Pesther Carneval' Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K533 in A major Keyboard Sonata K141 in D minor Keyboard Sonata K159 in C major 'La caccia' Keyboard Sonata K27 in B minor Keyboard Sonata K125 in G major Keyboard Sonata K380 in E major Keyboard Sonata K113 in A major Emil Gilels (piano)

Emil Gilels played a sonata by Scarlatti at his first public concert in 1929 and included them in his tours to the West in the 1950s. These recordings present a splendid group of the composer’s widely contrasting moods. Gilels was a true virtuoso in the Lisztian tradition, combining musical integrity with rarely equalled technique. The Fantasia was one of the works with which he won the First Soviet All-Union Competition in 1933, while his recordings of the Hungarian Rhapsodies and three works by Chopin are full of character and personality. A recently discovered notebook in which Gilels logged some of his recording sessions has made the dating of these recordings more accurate in this edition. Ward Marston, audio restoration engineer

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