Nami Ejiri - Beethoven: Diabelli Variation [CD]

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Melodiya presents recordings of JS Bach's works performed by Emil Gilels.This disc continues the series of recordings made by the great pianist of this country. However, these recordings suggest a different view on Gilels's performing art. Emil Gilels entered the music life of the USSR as a virtuoso in the best, romantic sense of the word. His inspired artistry always produced a magnetic effect on the audience. He conquered the world with his performances of Beethoven's sonatas, Mozart's works in Salzburg, and interpretations of Tchaikovsky's and Rachmaninoff's concertos. It was difficult to assume that a well-established stereotype of romantic pianist hid an inspired and profound interpreter of Bach's music. Johann Sebastian Bach never was a foundation of Gilels's repertoire. Rather, those were individual pieces, but that was exactly what made them, among different music, so unexpected at his concerts. Nevertheless, he kept revisiting some of them time and again. This disc features recordings made in 1948 to 1968. The late romantic transcriptions by Alexander Siloti and Ferruccio Busoni, originating from the traditions of Franz Liszt's performances of Bach's music, are equalized with classic orderliness of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, and limpid and rarified sound of the First Partita. An energetic motion of the C major concerto for two claviers (played by Gilels together with Yakov Zak) transmits the 'lion's grip' of Beethoven piano. Not claiming to be authentic and at the same time not falling into excessive romanticism, Emil Gilels shapes his own unique vision of the great cantor's music world.

1. Theme

2. Variation 4

3. Variation 16

4. Variation 18

5. Variation 24

6. Variation 26

7. Variation 20

8. Variation 28

9. Variation 38

10. Coda

11. Theme: Vivace

12. Variation 1: Alla Marcia, Maestoso

13. Variation 2: Poco Allegro

14. Variation 3: L'istesso Tempo

15. Variation 4: Un Poco Piu Vivace

16. Variation 5: Allegro Vivace

17. Variation 6: Allegro Ma Non Troppo E Serioso

18. Variation 7: Un Poco Piu Allegro

19. Variation 8: Poco Vivace

20. Variation 9: Allegro Pesante E Risoluto

21. Variation 10: Presto

22. Variation 11: Allegretto

23. Variation 12: Un Poco Piu Mosso

24. Variation 13: Vivace

25. Variation 14: Grave E Maestoso

26. Variation 15: Presto Scherzando

27. Variation 16: Allegro

28. Variation 17: (Allegro)

29. Variation 18: Poco Moderato

30. Variation 19: Presto

31. Variation 20: Andante

32. Variation 21: Allegro Con Brio

33. Variation 22: Allegro Molto

34. Variation 23: Allegro Assai

35. Variation 24: Fughetta - Andante

36. Variation 25: Allegro

37. Variation 26: (Piacevole)

38. Variation 27: Vivace

39. Variation 28: Allegro

40. Variation 29: Adagio Ma Non Troppo

41. Variation 30: Andante, Sempre Cantabile

42. Variation 31: Largo, Molto Espressivo

43. Variation 32: Fuga - Allegro

44. Variation 33: Tempo Di Menuetto, Moderato