Legacy, Vol. 5: First Recital in the West

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When Emil Gilels made his first appearance in the West--in Florence on June 11, 1951--at the height of the Cold War, he must have felt the weight of history riding on his shoulders. He was the first Soviet musician sent to perform for Western audiences since Sergei Prokofiev had been entrusted with a similar mission 30 years earlier. As we can judge from Volume 5 in Doremi's Emil Gilels Legacy series, Gilels rose to the occasion magnificently. He opens Beethoven's "Appassionata" with great (though unexaggerated) pathos and progresses to climaxes of tremendous grandeur. His gale-force tempos in the finale may not scrupulously observe the composer's cautionary "Allegro ma non troppo," but Gilels never shortchanges the music's passion. He accelerates to an even more phenomenal tempo for the "Presto" in the coda, while negotiating it with laser-beam accuracy. The pianist plays the Russian works (by Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, and Balakirev) with his characteristic beauty of sound and magisterial command. Even in the furious onslaught of Islamey, Gilels still manages to make Balakirev's exotic textures luminous, glinting with colors that seem to come from another galaxy. The then 35-year-old pianist was not yet the stylish Mozartean he was to become 20 years later. Nevertheless, he invests each note in Mozart's anguished C Minor Sonata with a wealth of emotion. The result is a magical web of sounds--not authentically Mozartean by current standards, perhaps, but a performance in which the composer's profound humanity is palpable in its tenderness. --Stephen Wigler

Legacy, Vol. 5: First Recital in the West, Music, Isaac Albeniz, Mily Balakirev, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Rachmaninov, Emil Grigoryevich Gilels, 20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Chamber Music & Recitals, Character/Single-Movement/Miscellaneous Work for Keyboard, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Classical Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Coll. of Character/Single-Movement/Misc. Works for Keyb., Fantasy/Fantasia for Keyboard, Keyboard, Moment Musical for Keyboard, Romantic Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard

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Tracks:

1. Sonata In C Minor, K 457: Molto Allegro
2. Sonata In C Minor, K 457: Adagio
3. Sonata In C Minor, K 457: Allegro Assai
4. Sonata In F Minor Op.57, Appassionata: Allegro Assai
5. Sonata In F Minor Op.57, Appassionata: Andante Con Moto
6. Sonata In F Minor Op.57, Appassionata: Allegro Ma Non Troppo
7. Sonata No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 14: Allegro, Ma Non Troppo
8. Sonata No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 14: Scherzo (Allegro Marcato)
9. Sonata No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 14: Andante
10. Sonata No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 14: Vivace
11. Moment Musical In D Flat, Op.16/5: Adagio Sostenuto
12. Islamey (Oriental Fantasy)
13. Recuerdos De Viaje, Op.71/6: Malaguena
14. Navarra

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Track Listings:

1. Leo - Miserere / Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset
2. Les Plaisirs du Palais: Drinking Songs of the Renaissance
3. Lorenzo Perosi: Stabat Mater; Suite n. 7 "Torino"
4. Love Songs
5. Magic of the Guitar [Original recording remastered]
6. Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 [Import]
7. Miroirs
8. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 16, 24 - 27 [Import]
9. Mozart: Sonatas, Vol.I
10. Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 36 ("Linz"), 33 & 27

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Born to Be Burned

Germania: German Romantic Organ Works of Otto Dienel, Vol. 1

Lester Chambers

Chet Baker & Strings [Original recording remastered]

Shining Through

Jack It Up

I Think I Love the 70's [Import]

Music for Saxophone Quartet

Ho! For the Kansas Plains

Havana Jam

Just What I Needed: Anthology

Electro Cumbia

En Vivo [Import]

By His Grace

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