Emil GILELS plays LISZT Rhapsodie espagnole 1

[davidbaker03]

He makes the piano cry

[aaaaaaaaa6804]

reminds me of rachaminoff's corelli variations so much.

Brilliant performance

[briandonohue100]

That Corelli theme again. The Rachmaninoff variations on the same melody are his last masterpiece.

[loboris1995]

It's a pity,I would like to hear Richter playing this pièce^^

[pianopianissima]

Gilels for ever...

Cziffra is wonderful in this piece, but this discovery of Gilels is amazing...

[loboris1995]

@pianopianissima Cziffra performence is too cold for me in my taste.

[gugunchik]

Gilels is one of the best virtuosos of any time, some of those wrong notes just remind us that he is human, thats all:)

[theoryjoe]

actually he's surprisingly accurate.  and where he misses notes, it can be forgiven by being one of the most intense piano recordings I've ever heard.

[deandusk]

i hope you were trying to make a good joke.

[alibeshjr]

With no doubt, the best paraphrase on Folies d'Espagne is what Liszt has created. I've seen more than 20 different works based on this theme, but none of them is as great as Liszt's Rhapsodie Espagnole.

And Gilels' is the best performance I guess.

[CziffraLegacy]

Hear to Cziffra's interpretations (recording in 1957-1959 and not the 1972 ones) of Liszt rhapsodies, which are still now a reference of virtuosity and musicality (no one made pianissimos like him).

[cioccolateria]

That exactly isn't true: Cziffra's way of playing Liszt is wonderful and sometimes very lyrical, but above all virtuous and he plays each passage as an isolated piece, so if there are more virtuous sequences in a composition, he plays them like a series of short compositions. Whereas Gilels' and Lazar Berman's interpretations are interpretations in the real sense of the word. And noone plays the Transcendental Studies as well as Lazar Berman, especially Nos. 2, 11 and 12.

[cioccolateria]

Actually, if you listen to Lazar Berman's interpretation of Liszt, you will realize he could play incredible pianissomos: try the slow introduction of the Étude d'éxécution transcendante no. 11 (Harmonie du soir) and the first appearance of the main theme.

[loboris1995]

@alibeshjr It's very beautifull,but liszt has done so many works and they are all very diffrent.

[alibeshjr]

@loboris1995 I didn't say anything about other works composed by Liszt (which are actually wonderful mostly) - I just said that among themes (transcriptions, paraphrases, variations, etc.) based on Folies d'Espagne, written during the past 4-5 centuries, Liszt's Rhapsodie Espagnole is the best (other good works that can be listed are composed by Lully, Vivaldi, Corelli, Bach and Salieri... But still I believe Liszt made the best one).