Gilels, Emil - Emil Gilels Edition (13 CD) - Various

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Emil Gilels (19. Oktober 1916 - 14. Oktober 1985) Stereotypes can be helpful when, for example, an artist is superficially classified as “young and wild” or “mature and wise”. Stereotypes can however be terribly misleading on account of their superficiality. The word actually originates from the field of printing and means a solid metallic plate, cast from a mould. When the word first came into use, all printing was twodimensional. The third dimension of depth, the world “behind” a given point, cannot be imparted by a stereotype. CD1 of this edition probably contains all the pre-war recordings made by the exceptional pianist between 1935 and 1941. Positively legendary status was attained by the recording of the devilishly difficult Fantasy on themes from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Le Nozze di Figaro , a piece that Franz Liszt (1811–1886) began and Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) completed. Gilels also mastered a wealth of other virtuosic works including the Prelude in G minor and Etude-tableau in C minor by Sergei Rakhmaninov (1873– 1943). In fact, the great pianist and composer later saw Gilels as his only true successor. CDs 2 to 13 of this edition do not follow the chronology of the artist’s career and instead, for the most part, place the works in the order in which they were composed. The Baroque period is represented by the landmark works of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), George Frideric Handel (1685– 1759) and Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757). 13 of the latter’s 555 sonatas were performed by Gilels on the recordings presented here. Also included, though, are compositions by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), the Italian Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788). But also works from Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven contains this unique BoxSet. (Text excerpts from the booklet by Lothar Brandt)