Emil Gilels plays Saint-Saens Concerto No. 2 (3/4)

[gkollias14]

This work is Gilel's style, elegant and playful.

[moiAntonin]

Gilels a joue ce mouvement nettement plus lente que normale et en consequence il nous permet d'apprecier les emotions profondes que saint saens a cache dans la musique. c'est sans disputation le meilleur interpretation d'un scherzo que j'ai jammais ecoute et en plus on doit dire merci a kondrashin d'avoir suivi les voeux du pianiste.

[uhartchristian]

yes the young giliels was a sensation..... together with richter the top of russian pianists. they both could not travel a lot abroad when young and we just hear these recordings now, when they were famous already in russia we in the west just started to hear rumors that there are some good pianists out there..... the iron curtain separated these pianists from the western world . this is no more. most following generation came over and decided to stay in the west.....

[Eztoez]

Love it

[billyguns2]

This is the best version of this concerto I ever heard. Gilels live is amazing; listen to his stunning live Chopin e minor Concerto on You Tube.

[hohavaua]

best version

[NiveauMoyen]

try his 1955 version with Cluytens - even more elegant. with Gilels, the later the better, with a few exceptions such as Chopin 1st, Symphonic Etudes (his Moscow 1983 rendition makes the 1984 version, uploaded on YT, sound lackluster by comparison) and Tchaikovsky 1st

[gerryrains]

Why bother with Gilels playing the Tchaikovsky 1st when there are recordings on YT of Richter playing it?

[Bret6464]

@gerryrains Because there is one Gilels! He is the one true disciple of Rachmaninoff! Listen to everything by Gilels, he was the true artist :-)) Richter also became an artist - but much later in his career.