Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. 1. Allegro
2. 2. Andante amoroso
3. 3. Rondeau (Allegro)
4. Six Variations in F, K.398 on "Salve tu, Domine" by D. Paisiello
5. Andante-Adagio-Allegretto
6. 1. Allegro maestoso
7. 2. Andante cantabile con espressione
8. 3. Presto

Disc 2:

1. 1. Allegro
2. 2. Larghetto
3. 3. Allegro
4. 1. Allegro
5. 2. Andante
6. 3. Rondeau. Allegro

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132975 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-14
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Album Description
Celebrate the life of the great Russian pianist, Emil Gilels. Three great packages that represent his long and illustrious recording career. Early Recordings features rare tracks that were made from 1935 to 1955 for the Melodiya label in Moscow and made available on CD for the first time with state-of-the-art remastering. Gilels's complete Mozart recordings on Deutsche Grammophon include his celebrated performance of Mozart's last piano concerto. Includes the Mozart "two-piano" concerto performed with Gilels daughter Elena, complemented by an unforgettable live recital from Salzburg, now back in print. Complete Beethoven sonatas includes Pathétique, Moonlight, Appasionata, The Tempest, Waldstein and Hammerklavier on 9 discs. Released to coincide with Emil Gilels 90th birthday year, he was born in 1916.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding performance
This album ionclues an outstanding performance of two of Mozart's piano sonatas (K. 281 and K. 310). While the piano concerto is also very beautifully played, there are many similarly satisying recordings of the concerto. There is nothing like the performance of these sonatas, at least not that I know of. The feature distinguishing it from all the rest is the inner truth: you listen to the music, and you can hearly believe everything it is telling you.
You may think you know these sonatas very well, but when you hear Gilels playing them for the first time, they'll be completely new for you.
I would purchase it even if only for the sake of these two sonatas.