Emil Gilels plays Beethoven
Historical Recording 1980
Emil Gilels (piano)
Here is this great Russian at his exhilarating best. The weighting and voicing is super-refined, the fast movements hurtle, the slow ones have a grave expressiveness, and the Eroica Variations...
Emil Gilels plays Beethoven
Historical Recording 1980
Emil Gilels (piano)
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Here is this great Russian at his exhilarating best. The weighting and voicing is super-refined, the fast movements hurtle, the slow ones have a grave expressiveness, and the Eroica Variations...
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Emil Gilels in a pure Beethoven concert FROM 1980, the late phase of his artistic development. His musicianship is experienced in this late concert, performed five years before his death. An evening of the highest artistic intensity, a mature Beethoven interpretation.
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November 2013
Here is this great Russian at his exhilarating best. The weighting and voicing is super-refined, the fast movements hurtle, the slow ones have a grave expressiveness, and the Eroica Variations emerge with anarchic humour.
