Composer: Frédéric François Chopin, Ferencz Liszt, Domenico Scarlatti
Performer: Emil Gilels
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8111386
Release: 2012
Size: 168 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in A Major, K. 533
02. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata K141 in D minor
03. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata K159 in C major ‘La caccia’
04. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata K27 in B minor
05. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata K125 in G major
06. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata K380 in E major
07. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata K113 in A major
08. Liszt: Fantasie über zwei Motive aus W.A. Mozarts Die Hochzeit des Figaro, S. 697 / R. 660
Liszt: Grandes Études de Paganini, S. 141
09. No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor, “La campanella”
10. No. 5 in E Major
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies, S244 Nos. 1-19
11. No. 6 in D-Flat Major
12. No. 9 in E-Flat Major, “Pesther Carneval”
Chopin: Polonaises, Op. 40
13. No. 1, “Military”
14. Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 ‘Héroïque’
15. Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Emil Gilels played a sonata by Scarlatti at his first public concert in 1929 and included them in his tours to the West in the 1950s. These recordings present a splendid group of the composer’s widely contrasting moods. Gilels was a true virtuoso in the Lisztian tradition, combining musical integrity with rarely equalled technique. The Fantasia was one of the works with which he won the First Soviet All-Union Competition in 1933, while his recordings of the Hungarian Rhapsodies and three works by Chopin are full of character and personality. A recently discovered notebook in which Gilels logged some of his recording sessions has made the dating of these recordings more accurate in this edition.