Gilels plays Rachmaninov: Prelude op.23 no.10

[toogoodbw]

I always felt most of Rachmaninoff's music was about "somewhere" more than "something." Maybe that is why it is easy to get so lost.

[bwv812bwv812]

pure ecstacy... this is real music.

[bwv812bwv812]

pure ecstacy... this is real music. 

[MsThisNameIsTaken]

This piece reminds me of just laying in the snow relaxing, watching snowflakes fall :DD

[MadameAmelieSon]

Fantastic performation, absolutely fantastic !!!

[Yourczarmine]

Only 102 people were able to come out of the daze after hearing to push the 'like' button.

[Lenochka1107]

I love Gilels!

[1969GibsonL5]

Gilels was truly brilliant.

[mrsmetz1]

dear mr. Gilels, your music means very much to me and I am thankful for it.

I am so sorry you passed away so young.

May you have peace, as you give me peace with your beautiful play.

(R.Metz , from the Netherlands)

[youququq]

@mrsmetz1

He be dead in peace (died in 1985).

[aleixenbmsn]

if anyone wants to understand the other side of the tipical mayor tones, must listen Rachmaninov...

si cualquiera quisiera entender el otro lado de la tipica musica mayor, debe escuchar Rachmaninov...

[ElAurian]

on of my favorite preludes...so full of emotions...

[robert140602]

@ xGh0stf4c3x Rachmaninov is my favourite pianist of....Rachmaninov...:)

[TheCrazyHairPianist]

If anyone wishes to understand Russia's history, one should listen to Rachmaninov.

[libetta]

If anyone wishes to understand Rachmaninov's music, one should listen to Gilels.

[Kurtyoungblood]

If anyone wishes to understand Gilels, uhhh....

[jonasbacklund]

if anyone wishes to understand Gilels, look at his face..

[jonasbacklund]

i know it sounds wrong, but i meant  his expression

[DorianGray2005]

...his face expresses very hard work....

[Bret6464]

@libetta One should listen to Rachmaninoff perform first, then listen to Emil Gilels - and a handful of others :-))

[AnthemicPolemic]

Very true, this is why people like Lang Lang simply will never be able to play their pieces 'properly'. Even their most 'perfect' renditions are barely vague semblances of the real piece, nothing more than a very unflattering homage.

[jubulalau]

I'm not a Lang Lang fan, but what do you actually mean by "people like Lang Lang"?

You telling me that in order to play a piece properly you need to have the same nationality of the composer?

If so, then I should disconsider Richter's recordings of Chopin's Scherzos?

[seanmcnally]

Don't be a showoff. idk

[AnthemicPolemic]

Not nationality, I mean the ways in which the expression/performance talent is cultivated, the ideas that inform it. Lang Lang sounds like someone who was cultivated to emulate.

[FlyingMelbournite]

I used to think Lang Lang as a big show off, but am very much a fan these days. People do change and improve as they get more life experience. If you rule out people from different culture playing music of other cultures, you might as well say Van Cliburn can't play Tchaikovsky, or Keith Jarrett can't play Jazz.

[TwelfthRoot2]

(I am not Russian) If anyone wishes to understand Gilels in order to understand Russian history, one should listen to Gilels play Rachmaninov

Then listen to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

:-)

[xGh0stf4c3x]

gilels is my favourite pianist for rachmaninoff

[OldRabit]

That is so good!!

[michanso2]

Poetry.

[peterlunow]

I,m  a pianist myself and never payed much attention to Gilels ,dont ask why .....but hearing these Rachm. interpretations ,I must say:GENIUS. One is never too old to learn new worlds<HA! It takes my breath away,thank you for posting these jewels!!!

[bachmaninoff]

chad 410 has bad taste. brahms is a joke compared to rachmaninoff.

[chad410]

for a pianist Rachmaninov was one of the best but I just was never so interested in much of Rach s music. Though the preludes and some of the Etudes Tableux are fab.

[chad410]

im not a huge fan of rachmaninov slightly cheesy music but here one is made to think of it as brahms or Chopin. delicious

[cccpredarmy]

maybe you've listned only bad interpretors till now :)

[chad410]

well it s true my love for most Russina composers and more is evident however he makes rachmaninov yes perhaps more serious than i thought.

[4c00h]

check out the rach vid i uploaded on my account

[fmorgana]

Don;t call R's music "cheesy," mon dieu.