Emil Gilels: The Seattle Recital

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[this disc] provides a vivid snapshot of his unique, ever-evolving artistry…if posterity has favoured Richter over Gilels, that doesn’t diminish the pleasure of revisiting the unique strengths... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

Release Date: 26th Aug 2016
Catalogue No: 4796288
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 74 minutes

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'

Work length22:53

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Emil Gilels (piano)
Recorded: 1964-12-06
Recording Venue: Seattle, Opera House

1. Allegro con brio

Track length10:32

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2. Introduzione (Adagio molto)

Track length3:20

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3. Rondo (Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo)

Track length9:01

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Chopin: Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major, Op. 2

Work length15:07

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Emil Gilels (piano)
Recorded: 1964-12-06
Recording Venue: Seattle, Opera House

Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28

Work length6:53

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Emil Gilels (piano)
Recorded: 1964-12-06
Recording Venue: Seattle, Opera House

Piano Sonata No.3 In A Minor

Track length6:53

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Debussy: Images pour piano - Book 1

Work length12:43

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Emil Gilels (piano)
Recorded: 1964-12-06
Recording Venue: Seattle, Opera House

1. Reflets dans l'eau

Track length4:13

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2. Hommage à Rameau

Track length5:12

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3. Mouvement

Track length3:18

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Excerpt, Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22

Work length5:27

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Emil Gilels (piano)
Recorded: 1964-12-06
Recording Venue: Seattle, Opera House

1. Lentamente

Track length1:02

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3. Allegretto

Track length0:53

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5. Molto giocoso

Track length0:19

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11. Con vivacità

Track length0:59

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10. Ridiculosamente

Track length0:46

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17. Poetico

Track length1:28

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Excerpt, Ravel: Miroirs, M.43

Work length5:47

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Emil Gilels (piano)
Recorded: 1964-12-06
Recording Venue: Seattle, Opera House

4. Alborada del gracioso

Track length5:47

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Excerpt, Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka

Work length2:37

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Emil Gilels (piano)
Recorded: 1964-12-06
Recording Venue: Seattle, Opera House

1. Danse russe

Track length2:37

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Bach, J S: Prelude In E Minor, BWV 855a (Arranged And Transposed To B Minor)

Work length3:09

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Emil Gilels (piano)
Recorded: 1964-12-06
Recording Venue: Seattle, Opera House

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Previously-unreleased recording of Emil Gilels, the 100th anniversary of whose birth falls October 2016, captured live in an acclaimed 1964 Seattle recital. Handsome 1CD Digipack.

On 6 December 1964 the great Emil Gilels gave a tempestuously acclaimed recital at the Seattle Opera. The concert was recorded live for private purposes but with professional equipment. With the exception of a single work, this recital has never before been made available to the general public and is now being released for the first time!

Between 1955 and 1983 Emil Gilels toured North America twelve times. Unlike his Soviet colleague and rival Sviatoslav Richter, Gilels loved the US. “I first came here 22 years ago,” he said in 1977. “I lost here in the United States very much of my heart. You know, I left here a good portion of my life.” This certainly held true for his fifth tour, an arduous three months of recitals, concerto dates and recording sessions that began and ended on the East Coast. In between came four West Coast appearances – in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, as well as the present recital recorded in the Seattle Opera House on December 6, 1964 and released here for the first time.

As the concert unfolds, the give-and-take between the pianist’s inspiration and the public’s appreciation is palpable, boding well for future Seattle appearances. But it was not to be; Gilels would only return once more to the city, in 1979: yet another reason to treasure this previously unpublished document of one of the 20th century’s greatest pianists in a live concert – his preferred setting – and at the height of his powers.

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October 2016

[this disc] provides a vivid snapshot of his unique, ever-evolving artistry…if posterity has favoured Richter over Gilels, that doesn’t diminish the pleasure of revisiting the unique strengths and versatility of this impressive pianist

29th September 2016

The performances take a while to settle down...It’s with a fiercely concentrated performance of Prokofiev’s Third Sonata that the intensity begins to rise; after that, the first set of Debussy’s Images has real backbone and rhythmic focus.

Emil Gilels: The Seattle Recital

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