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Emil Gilels Live in Moscow, Vol 3 / Emil Gilels, piano / Live performance (1978) Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory / Packaging, design and DVD authoring 2008 Video Artists International, Inc. / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 79 Minutes
UPC: 089948446897
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.75 inches; 3.2 Ounces
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Classical
- Run time : 1 hour and 19 minutes
- Release date : July 22, 2008
- Actors : Emil Gilels
- Studio : Video Artists Int'L
- Number of discs : 1
Emil Gilels • Live in Moscow. Vol. 3
The selections featured on this DVD are by composers whose works have long been associated with Emil Gilels. His Beethoven, celebrated for its scrupulous musicality and stylistic mastery, resulted in no less than three recordings of the complete concerto cycle as well as multiple recordings of several of the sonatas. The pianist was, in fact, in the final stages of recording a complete Beethoven sonata cycle when he died in 1985 at the age of 69.
Prokofiev was also central to Gilels' repertoire. He was the dedicatee of the composer's eighth piano sonata, playing its world premiere in 1944. Like the Beethoven Sonata No.12, the Prokofiev is atypical structurally, lasting just about eight minutes in its single movement. But Prokofiev was not a miniaturist by nature and in this sonata there is plenty of Sturm und Drang framing the more meditative sections of the work. Shorter works by Prokofiev demonstrate Gilels' uncanny use of color.
For this recital, Gilels chose a closing Rachmaninoff group featuring some of the composer's most popular works, including the C-sharp minor and G minor preludes, the seductive Vocalise, and Daisies. Most probably it was only Rachmaninoff himself who was able to perform this music with the requisite authority and technical panache that Gilels brings to these keyboard favorites.
BEETHOVEN
Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26
PROKOFIEV
Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28, "From Old Notebooks"
Eight pieces from Visions Fugitives, Op. 22
"Prelude" from Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 12
RACHMANINOFF
"Daisies" Op. 38, No. 3. Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2
"Vocalise" Op. 34, No. 14 (arr. Richardson). Prelude in B-flat major, Op. 23, No. 2
Prelude in G-flat major, Op. 23, No. 10
Prelude in B major, Op. 32, No. 11. Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5
Encores
Scriabin: Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1. Bach-Siloti: Prelude in B minor
Emil Gilels, piano
Live performance (1978) Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory
Copyright 2007 GOSTELERADIOFOND
Packaging, design and DVD authoring 2008 Video Artists International, Inc.
Produced for DVD by Allan Altman Design: Raymond Edwards
Executive Producer for DVD: Ernest Gilbert
Curator/Project Coordinator : Gyorgy Vlasenko
Cover photo © Akira Kinoshita; Image courtesy of emilgilels.com
VAI wishes to thank Christian A. Pohl and emilgilels.com for their help with this project.
