Gilels plays the Prelude in B minor (Bach / Siloti)

[tatianaskripacheva]

без коментариев

просто что то не возможное!

[EpigeneticAlteration]

I wish I was the cameraman on the stage!

[RECurseTO]

does listening to this count towards your 5 a day?

[pianushko]

It’s amazing how such a simple piece can make such an emotional impact. But then again, all genius things are simple.

[trent12801]

Gilels played this Bach-Siloti prelude as an encore many, many times in his extraordinary career. The history of the piece is covered in Barber's book 'Lost in the Stars: The Forgotten Musical Life of Alexander Siloti'.

The music itself may be found, together with many other transcriptions, in the Carl Fischer Anthology 'The Alexander Siloti Collections'. Many wonders lie in waiting.

[saintansele]

Gilels played in Los Angeles ca. 1980. 2 separate recitals & I was lucky enough to see them. This was the Soviet era & there were 2 agents (KGB?) standing thruout the performance on stage & at the sides observing the audience. Being "live" sound, you can hear more nuance & sublety, of course, & Gilels had a way of making every single note sound special. He played this Bach for encore. He is one of the immortals & enriched the lives of his audiences.

[miledyolga2]

Гениально.

[100lechat]

слёзы

[Yt265alex]

Лучшее исполнение этой вещи из всех, что удалось когда- либо услышать. Браво, Гилельс! Браво, Артист! Браво

[twiceshy069]

He does the most WONDERFUL diminuendos in this piece.

So beautiful... so sad.

[thebananatuna]

beautiful beyond words

[paulmcc11]

the "7" people who clicked dislike must owe him money!

[MrMrMikayel]

Bravissimo!!!

[alwaysright10000]

The best I've eve heard this piece played.

[organistka57]

Abszolúte zseniális!!

[gigie555]

A great Soviet pianist. Thanks for posting

[Bret6464]

@gigie555

Gilels rejected all things "Soviet", he is the exact opposite.

Gilels is one of the greatest artists and musicians who was the true disciple of Rachmaninoff, as Rach acknowledged :-)

Thank you for posting all these extraordinary videos :-))

[Jolsimausi]

Absolutely fantastic. It's hard for me to find words to describe this pure beauty.

[itsjustnopinionok]

7 people dislike good music when they hear it.

[725piano]

Good old Gilels, can't beat that golden sound he possesses...

[ecaroldales]

I would sell my soul to have been present at this concert, and am so grateful that its record has been preserved. Regardless of what he played, Gilels always communicated the beauty and the terror of the human condition. As he and I share the same birth date, October 19th, I've always felt especially close to him--if only that meant I could invoke his spirit when I play....

Thank you so much for posting!

[MrBaas93]

Well Done KlassikFan2007. I just started playing this song, I allready enjoy it to play, but the left hand is quite hard to learn. Good job sir!

[MyLordLoke]

"I didn't find this on youtube so I decided to share this wonderful masterpiece in the hands of a most wonderful artist of the piano..."

- I like that.

[elykhin]

miracle is happening at 0:40

[ceciamable]

meraviglia

[nasimonma]

amaaaazing

[M3sslah]

There are few that brings out the melodies in the pieces like Gilels, most seem to be hooked on virtuosity and they just bang away and it seem as if they need to be done with the piece quick to get to their next concert.

Listen to Gilels play Rameau, it's just so peaceful and perfect. Search for "Gilels Rameau La Villageoise" and "Gilels RAMEAU La rappel des oiseaux " I also love his version of Scarlatti Sonata In F Minor L118. All superb music if you like baroque.

[RenataCann]

I just want to cry with emotion. It's so beautiful. It makes me believe that there is a beautiful world out there. Thanks for the music.

[briandonohue100]

Breathtaking. The kind of music and the kind of performance one would like to hear on one's deathbed. Gilels was one of those unassuming giants. He never strove to be a master, he simply was.

[MrDebrecen]

Fantastic!!!

[lll777888777]

muchas gracias !!! ,muy impresionante , provoca lagrimas....

[uasmath]

Awesome! BACH STILL LIVES! Outstanding performance. This is music in infinite dimensions! Thanks a lot!

[twotea22]

I heard & saw this performance the very first time about 17 years ago on a visit in Kiev. And since then i haven't heard NO ONE else playing this prelude in the same "sacred and moving" way Gilels does.

@artsloving: i agree geertdehoux has issues. And Belgians? As you're German read your own history. Also there's these famous guys in a german speaking country; How was their name? Prikopil? Fritzl? It's everywhere, so shut up!

Ohhh yes, Gilels international carreer took off in Belgium ...

[artsloving]

@twotea22 Indeed brilliant point...I have Jewish relatives. And there are so many Germans that generally we do not need to have sex with relatives e.g. own children. I have observed geertdehoux for a while, he is indeed visting well-visitied sites to get attention for his ego to pump up his existence below-standard. He does not even grasp that mostly it is hard to understand whom he tries to reply to.

[ahamayoisac]

sublime spirituality, divine execution

[basiuniaism]

Meraviglioso !!!

[benedetti]

Absolutely maverllous, thank you so much KlassikFan2007, you did a great job! Thankx again.

Regards from Belgium.

[KlassikFan2007]

@benedetti you are welcome! However, I immediately pass your thanks to Mrs. J.S.Bach, A. Siloti & E.G. Gilels, my role in the creation of this masterpiece being humble, to say the least of it. *smile*

[desolatemeadow]

@KlassikFan2007 Mrs Bach and Siloti are very welcome.

[usr913]

@KlassikFan2007 i'm sorry to shock you, but js bach indeed was male. at bach's time, it was just fashion to wear very strange long-hair wigs ;-)

[KlassikFan2007]

@usr913 Sorry, I obviously used the wrong plural form for 'misters'... should have benn 'messieurs' I guess. ;-)

[elliedwa]

@KlassikFan2007 Messrs.

[beamisinbtwn]

@KlassikFan2007 But the fact that it is here, for all ages and economic classes is your doing, and that is no small thing. At no other time has access to such great experiences been available to such a large audience. Thank You for all your videos...

[KlassikFan2007]

@beamisinbtwn Thank you!

[Sofoclaudio]

The instinct is to knell and to adore... but, to adore who? Gilels... Bach... God? And if they were the same person? The music is the answer

[SFsFinest1]

although not technically difficult, it is a challenge to get your hands independent and play smooth and even through

[peronospera]

Gilels is simply immense

[uhartchristian]

c est une priere d un etre humain conscient de son destin.....

Emil Gilels montre sa maturité face a la vie eternelle.....

[artsloving]

geertdehoux, the megalomaniac psychopath is molesting utube-users again with his comments :-)) he forgot to take his pills. Better he is molesting us than children in Belgium where he lives, like other famous Belgians did :-))

[ireallysuck123]

makes me cry every time i listen to this..

[geertdehoux]

@ireallysuck123

Do you listen several hours a day to it ?

[ireallysuck123]

@geertdehoux

haha, of course not

3 minute clip, listen several hours of it will turn you into a pumpkin

[geertdehoux]

@ireallysuck123

OK, then we understand each other! :-)

Saludos,

Geert.

[musichiere70]

Have you heard the Scarlatti Sonatas played by Emil Giles...? Thery are unparalleled! One of the most beutifull "things" made by him....

[strigoiu13]

incredible...

[seagreentangerine]

This is a beautiful video and I admire Giles greatly as a player...

I also want to note... that I feel everybody has an opinion and they're entitled to it... to the person who emailed me with a one-liner... perhaps you need to grow up.

[seagreentangerine]

Gilels is equal to Barenboim... they both have an exquisite, cat-like way of playing.. silky paws that travel the key board seemlessly... this piece describes perfectly in music what it feels like to have your heart broken in two.. deeply soulful, mournful and I never ever want it to stop... the entwined roses on the keyboard say everything to me...

[geertdehoux]

@seagreentangerine

Gilels is not equal to Barenboim.

[simcha181818]

@geertdehoux "Gilels is not equal to Barenboim." Wow! How long did it take you to figure that out? BTW are you qualified to weight either one's qualifications? How come we never heard of you?

[geertdehoux]

@simcha181818

Well, my super intelligent boy or girl, didn't YOU write: "Gilels is equal to Barenboim" ??!!

Well, my intelligent answer on this is: "Gilels is not equal to Barenboim".

Simpel, isn't it ?

[geertdehoux]

@simcha181818

BTW ? Do you want me to pay tax on this statement to the Belgian governement for the officially illegal asile seekers, my dear friend ?!

You've never heard of me ? Have you ever heard of the great Ossip NEKEARBREV ?! No ?! THAT might cause a BIG frustration!

Well, perhaps it comes because you don't visit Google and Youtube enough... :-)

[geertdehoux]

@simcha181818

Simple.

[geertdehoux]

@seagreentangerine

"A cat-like way of playing" ??!

Well, well, why not a crocodile way.. ?

"Your heart broken in two" ?! Not in three ??

[geertdehoux]

@seagreentangerine

The roses "say everything" to you ?!  Interesting... what do they say ?

[AlexanderTevelev]

БЗК 1978 год

[artsloving]

((-: the Belgian psychopath geertdehoux has again a crisis, probably he fogot to take his pills. He does not even understand that we can not see to what he is replying to. Ignore him and forgive him.

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

Thanks for your wise words, my dear friend.

May the Buddha's peaceful mind be yours too, soon.

A most humble greeting,

G. Dehoux.

[werewolfgaara123]

dude this made me cry

[AECSRQ]

I can't stop listening to this. It feels like a rumor from a better world. Thank you so much KlassikFan2007. ♥

[KlassikFan2007]

@AECSRQ You are welcome. It's great there are listeners like you! ;-)

[AECSRQ]

@KlassikFan2007 Your two channels have brought me great joy in listening today, a rainy day in Florida filled with virtuosity and feeling. ♥

[Bassoonater]

@AECSRQ Well said, I have never thought about it like that.

[cf11234]

@AECSRQ I am speechless...the feeling which you can't put into words... what a genius Gilels was and still is. It certainly feels like a rumor from a better world. I feel hopeful that there are people who feel the same as me

[Bruce88keys]

@AECSRQ well put

[brodsky96]

... by the way... I own now this DVD.... this concert in Moscow is one of the peaks of concertant activities of the last 50 years around the world (comparable to some Lipatti or Brendel or Gulda)... the POWER and DELICACY of GHILELS are unique... thanks GOD, I had the chance of being witness live to a few other performances, so I have permanent memories of Ghilels great art.

[RussianBarbarian]

Beautiful!

[Zay182]

Perfect. i love this! Gilels is a professional, yet not sensual as much as i heard someone playing... I'm from Armenia, last year i heard how our great piano player Svetlana Navasardyan was playing this.... she made me cry and shiver, thank you Svetlana! and thank you Bach

[aaabbbccc5]

sounds a little bit like the e minor prelude from bachs wtk I

[2587Luna]

Gilels version is much more intimate and personal than that of Sokolov. What an impressive recital. Many thx for sharing.

[mlavagni]

I am enrapted ... Gilels playing makes me to feel happiness and sorrow at the same time... I feel it is the voice of the soul. He is one of the few who can make it possible.

[leggerissima]

My favourite pianist and favourite video on Youtube )

[ejlister]

Thank you for uploading this. I have listened to it several times a day in the last month or so for my "serenity now!" moments.

[TheMikester307]

Wow! I first heard this on his live recording at Carnagie Hall, It was supposedly one of his favorite encores! Siloti was, I think, a cousin of Rachmaninoff....

[simcha181818]

divine music, divinely played.

[sam0xin]

STANDARD of PERFECTION ! VERY ..... CLOSE to GOD !

[usertyfoon]

фантастическая музыка!!! обожаю Баха!!!

[darilek]

gorgeous...I'm really surprised I've never heard this played before. And by Gilels is such a treat. thanks so much for posting!

[LeonidArgail]

Notice great interpretation be Moscow pianist L.Fikhtengolz (key words for search on YouTube: Lidiya Fihtengolts plays Bach-Ziloti ). I think it is worth to listen!

[geertdehoux]

@LeonidArgail

You're right!

She gave a very beautiful performance of this little jewel!

I had never heard her name before.

Is she still alive ?

Thanks for letting me know!

A cordial greeting,

Geert Dehoux.

[trent1280]

This breathtaking performance reveals the importance and imagination of Alexander Siloti. For good reason, Gilels and most of the Russians have carried it in their repertoire for generations.

The Bach/Siloti prelude is published by Carl Fischer in its Anthology of Siloti Transcriptions. A full-scale biography has been published by Rowman and Litlefield. "Lost in the Stars -- The Forgotten Musical Life of Alexander Siloti" will tell you how this "perfect, tender" piece came to be.

[malcolmcrowthers]

well it's masterly of course but very irritating that you can't see his hands to study how he does it, then when you can see his hands you are too far away! Then only ast the very end do you get just a glimpse! malcolm

[hedones]

we're another planet.....

[LversusKira]

I can't tell you how many times i've listened to this video.

[colourfulwithaU]

Flowers on the piano=well deserved.

[Bognarfan]

I have never heard Bach played this expressively or with such beautiful articulation.

[RebeckaSarkozy]

Wow! Very pretty! :-)

[Dolceris]

Listen to Sokolov interpretation.

[denmakh]

So I did it. Didn't like the beginning, going to stop listening but when in the middle he started "singing" his left hand... oh my goodness! And the final tacts - listen what he does with his left hand! Magic! Hadly touches the keys.

[JumpDiffusion]

why would anyone gve minus to this comment? Sokolov interpretation is just as brilliant...

[artsloving]

Dear BrucknerMotet, your favorite video

Tatiana Nicolaeva playing Shostakovitch a seen on your channel is somewhat interesting. It is also an artistical reduction to the essential, but by very far not als intense as Bach/Gilels here. Listen to Gilels playing technically difficult Rachmaninov pieces or compare to other versions of Bach/Siloti! If people are of open attitude than they condense/reduce music to the max like here or appreciate it. By by

[artsloving]

in medieval times lunatic pianists like him would have been executed by cutting a finger on the first day, a toe on the second day, a second finger on the third day...a hand on the eleventh day, then a footh....the forearms, the upper arms and so one until his torso would have died. To intense for boring mediocre people? The intense beauty of this Bach/Gilels cooperation, which I defended from the outset, will cure you, hopefuly G. Dehoux learned his lesson for filing pseudo-competent comments.

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

There was a time great 'scientists' even burned people alive when they claimed our world is a globe!!

Can you imagine this: a GLOBE ??!!!

Can you imagine someone can say something that STUPID ??!!!

HA, HAAA!!!

[artsloving]

My wife, a professional classical pianist, has laughed about the nonsense of Mr. Geert Dehoux, no professor at conservatory has ever expressed such sweeping medieval statements. To REACT on his primitve level, but again better and more intensively:

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

Imagine: a GLOBE!!!

[artsloving]

Sorry, of course I meant Mr. Geert Dehoux, I confused him with another special person of this very significant country (to defend its honour: don´t confuse Belgium with France, for example Django Reinhard was Belgian and not French, like Woody Allen pretended :-) lol)

[artsloving]

:-) To enlighten what is really going on here: elsewhere Mr. Dutroux has pretended in his typical and dogmatic pseudo-competent that there were two categrories of pianists: male and female (apparently because of female power). This is a ridicioulous offence to in fact all true artists and reveals that has indeed not understood the essence of art. :-) lol

If you are not convinced listen for example to Martha Agerich for example her Prokovief Sonata etc.

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

Even a normal child knows each rule has its exceptions.

They 'confirm the general rule', don't they...

[artsloving]

Funny to see how fans of Geeert Dehoux rate comments entirely focused on the points Bach/Gilels negatively simply beacuse they have been posted by me. Youtube is mainly not a forum to seek for objectiviness and truth, but rather of mediocre and superficial blabla. of masses.

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

The two greatest GENII of last century were Horowitz and ELVIS!!"

(Legendary statement by the Belgian psychopath G.D.)

[interceptor6]

@geertdehoux

i'm belgian, who is GD?

[artsloving]

...obviouly he understands the opposite direction better because he started insults.

It is sincerely regreted that I used the methaphor of the masturbating cock-roach IN REACTION, but please understand that the association was entirely natural after his comments like "Hmm", after he involved my (by the way beautiful) wife and after I saw his face on internet videos.

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

Yeah, there asslover showed his REAL cultural level, didn't he... ??!

Thanks for showing us how you REALLY are!

[artsloving]

I fully aggree. Bach and Gilels tried to push the borders of intensity and imagination further in the direction of beauty. The mediocre Mr. Geert de Houx (Belgium) does not emotionally capture what is going on in this piece,...

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

Siloti was also there...

[artsloving]

@PJinBston Dear PJinBoston, I was replying to geertdehoux as you can immediately see at the start of the message. Sorry that you thought I

meant you. But that freak showed up again after a long time.

[geertdehoux]

@PJinBston

Hello, I don't know what this lunatic idiot wrote to you, but asslover belongs to that kind of stupid assholes who're damaging Youtube's reputation constantly, hiding their real name, of course!

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

Yeah, your REAL, highly 'intellectual' level comes out, again!

Poor 'professional' pianist - wife, with such an asslover...

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

I don't want to imagine Asslover seeing black holes, while closing his eyes...

[brodsky96]

Dear Klassikfan2007,

happy new year and thanks for your postings.

My suggestion would be to close comments on this video.

Some of them are so pointless that even some death persons (like BACH and GILELS) would turn around in their graves.

Greetings!

[KlassikFan2007]

Dear Brodsky96,

happy new year to you too. I see your point, yet I'm convinced that the juxtaposition of comments, whatever stupid or pointless they may be, and this beautiful music helps to see what is really timeless and what has no importance at all. Bad comments can do no harm to either Bach or Gilels, but rather to commentators themselves.

[brodsky96]

ok, I understand your point - partly.... my opinion is that some "things" are discutable, but some not... but as Einstein said: there are two infinite things in this universe: one is the universe itself, the other is human stupidity... about the universe he was not sure....

[geertdehoux]

@brodsky96

Very well said!

[TheResidentevilfan92]

@KlassikFan2007 Very true

[artsloving]

Happy New Year and Decade mrsmetz1!

[artsloving]

(I had already moved on and deepened my knowledge by listening and comparing, see my remarks below.)

[artsloving]

Happy New Year and Decade Chopinscoffeebuddy!

Well, using some "nothing but pleasant terms" :-) yourself could be accused of having chosen an anonymous nickname (like most on youtube by the way) :-) ...as I have said geertdhoux pormotes himself in an undue manner. I will certainly not start this discussion again any further (even in case he had influenced/activated you to provoke me further) :-) There is already clear written evidence for everybody who is willing to use his brain.

[artsloving]

As a mathematical illustration and metaphor: the formal reduction/approach to zero is linked with a quality progression to infinity, for example the function y = 1 / x makes a jump from minus infinity to plus infinity at the transition point x = 0

[artsloving]

This piece represent a beautiful example of the principle of art to formally reduce issues to the max, to the essential core.

There is a famous finger exercise book for piano players called "Hanon" which remotely may sound formally similar, but indeed in there is an essential difference which represents the whole quality of Bach captured by Gilels (for example the aria of

Goldberg variations played by Gould could be a further example of such an reduction to the essential).

[geertdehoux]

@artsloving

The name of the book is not Hanon.

It's its WRITER'S name, Charles-Louis Hanon!!

Oh, dear...