Emil Gilels Recital
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Artist: Emil GilelsBrand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
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Movie Review: Gilels Ossiach 1971 Recital- Mozart Sonata K310; Beethoven Sonatas Op.53, 101 etc.
Summary: 5 Stars
Emil Gilels is well known as a Beethoven interpreter. His approach is characterized by a full bodied sound in piano and forte, complete virtuosity and a structural sense that gives clarity to both local and global musical events. His tempos make sense within an entire movement or whole sonata (he doesn't need to slow down dramatically for the 2nd subject in Op.53's first mvmt.) and he will mostly maintain a tempo with slight fluctuations. The Mozart K310 first and third movements do not err from the starting tempo and are all the better for it. Likewise the Schumannesque 2nd mvmt. of Op.101 with it's incessant dotted rhythms and so one is never in doubt what Beethoven has written when the syncopated notes become the pulse of the music. The virtuosity never makes hearing Beethoven's textures or working out of ideas a difficult task yet the tension of the music is not lost - an impressive feat. The music comes from great consideration and discipline rather than a purely instinctive place.
His playing in the Op.101 finale may not reach the ultimate level of exuberance due in part to making successive 16th note groups sound with too much the same articulated intensity and in the Op.53 first movement the 16th note tremolos are too loud after the first fermata (also in the same place at the recap). Nor does he succeed in conveying the sense of what Beethoven was searching for in some of his more daring pedal markings. His pianism which goes to the bottom of the key is always powerful but doesn't always float his sound out or have the same variety of nuance, especially within softer dynamics like Kempff more often acheives. Nevertheless, there is not a better Op.101 on DVD in my opinion- a lyrical fantasia-like work which Edwin Fischer stated as affording greater interpretive difficulties than any of the last 3 sonatas. Beethoven consistently used fugues in his later works to unleash a highly concentrated emotional expression (eg.Op.106, Op.110 etc.) and Gilels has the full measure of technique, clarity and architectural build of the fugue in the last movement of Op.101. Additionally, from the episode before the coda in the Finale of Op.53 there is an absolutely thrilling conclusion to the sonata complete with octave glissandi and an entirely convincing musical flow of ideas which Gilels' playing evinces in general.
The live 1971 sound and color film are very good and camera angles are not distracting, serving Gilels art and the music well.
The full magnitude of a great piece can never be fully exposed in a single interpretation and that is what makes it equally fascinating to view Gilels (VAI Op.26), Solomon (EMI Op.57), Kempff (EMI Op.90), Arrau (EMI Op.111), Perahia (Sony LD Op.2 No.3), Gould (Sony LD Op.110 mvmts. 3 and 4), Ashkenazy (Teldec LD Op.109), Serkin (Op.53 last movement live in Japan), Barenboim (EMI Op.2-111 live in Berlin) and others in Beethoven, each offering individual but valid approaches with varying degrees of this quality or that. The DVDs make it fascinating to to see different approaches to piano technique and we are able to see how they match up to our understanding of the music, as best we know it.
Other recommended recordings with Gilels - Brahms 2nd Concerto with Chicago and Reiner (RCA), Tchaikovsky Concerto (VAI DVD), Prague recital playing Haydn C minor Sonata , Chopin 2nd Sonata (Multisonic), Chopin 3rd Sonata (DG or Steinway Legends), Chopin Concerto No.1, Beethoven Sonatas Op.81a, 90 (Revelation), Concertos 4 and 5 with Ludwig (EMI), C minor Variations, Bach G major French Suite (Philips), Scriabin Sonata No.4 , Shostakovich Piano Sonata No.2 and Prelude and Fugue Op.87 No.24, Prokovief Sonatas 2, 3 and also 8 (premiered by Gilels).
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