Emil Gilels plays Schumann Symphonic Etudes, Op13

Part I
# Theme - Andante
Etude 1 (Variation 1) - Un poco più vivo
Etude II (Variation 2) - Andante
Etude III - Vivace
Etude IV (Variation 3) - Allegro marcato
Etude V (Variation 4) - Scherzando

Category:

Music

Tags:

• gilels
• schumann
• symphonic
• etudes
• piano
• classical

[maryann1025]

yea he's not playing it right.

[truecrypt]

Dear maryann1025,

You may be an expert on "potty humor", but I doubt your expertise extends as far as Schuman's Symphonic Etudes. The tone of your comment is rude. The content speaks much more about your intellectual level than about Gilels' performance.

[himitsunosallychan]

Excuse me because incorrect English and perhaps wrong view, but as Gilels lover, I feel his greatest performances are the ones he played as slow as he possibly could. There, we able to hear (especially in studio recordings) without any fuzz exactly what he wanted us to hear. Actually, performance velocity per se has little to do with performance quality, I think, but in fact this pianist was at his best when he played slow. I would be grateful if someone could teach me year of this recording.

[dagadbm]

WOW. i know so little of schumann, this is amazing, can someone PM me some other amazing works from this great composer?

[humpert]

wonderful playng...but i think pollini is the best on this immense work..

[pianoman0341]

Ah live recordings...it's so nice to hear that the greats are human too. Thanks for posting!

[martinadler73]

Oh, wait, this is exactly the live recording I loved so much in my youth! At 7:32 there is a metallic noise (something is falling down and is hitting a metal bar or so). I memorized also the background noises ...

[martinadler73]

I am not a great fan of Schumann, although I deeply love some of his works, e.g. the Symphonic Etudes. When I still went to school I played Gilel's live recording of them over and over again on my cassette player - he really opened my eyes for the grandness of the Etudes!

[punkpoetry]

@zcharleshavlik

I suspect you're alone in your appreciation of the Gilels/Jochum recording as "unfortunately not stylish". A comparison between Gilels and Andre Watts only goes to show the unbridgable the gap between the great Russian pianist and the commendable American one

"For me Russians are most convincing in Russian music" - that's an unfortunate bias

[88alan8800]

is this from the january 9 1983 recording in tchaikovsky hall?

[Pogouldiwitz]

@askdhg Thank you! It's always nice to find people who share my views on music and it's interpreters. I admire Mrs. Zilberstein very much, as well. ;). Best wishes!

[askdhg]

@Pogouldiwitz That´s my opinion! You are so right!

[askdhg]

@Boogieforme You ARE right! If they would have standard interpretations they wouldn´t be artists. They would be imitators!