As a teenage virtuoso pianist from Odessa, Gilels was thrust forward as a propaganda torchbearer for Soviet ideals. A hundred years after the great musician’s birth, though, many believe the ...

The first Soviet artist of stature to perform in the U.S. since Composer-Pianist Sergei Prokofiev’s visit 34 years ago is Emil Gilels, who comes as Soviet Russia’s “foremost pianist.” Following the ...

Emil Gilels was one of the first Soviet musicians to be allowed to perform regularly in the west after the second world war, and made the first of 15 tours of the US in 1955. This recital was given in ...

(16) Polonaises, Movements: No. 3 in A, Op. 40/1, 'Military' Emil Gilels, Musician, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer (16) Polonaises, Movements: No. 6 in A flat, Op ...

When you hear Gilels play certain pieces, he makes the piano sound as though each key were attached to one of those massive, iron bells. What made Gilels' sound so special, though, was that it was ...

Emil Gilels, widely considered one of the greatest concert pianists of the century, died Monday in Moscow at age 68, the Moscow Conservatory of Music announced Tuesday. His British agent, Wilfred ...

Listening to Emil Gilels was like listening to no other pianist. When the great Russian played, you didn’t listen to the music with only your ears. You absorbed it through every part of your body — ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Fernando Previtali, Conductor Emil Gilels, Piano Milan RAI Orchestra Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Leningrad ...

Pianist Artur Rubinstein was passing through Odessa one day in 1931 when a piano teacher cornered him and insisted on dragging him off to the local conservatory to hear her pupils. “You know how ...

Emil Gilels is well known as a Beethoven interpreter. His approach is characterized by a full bodied sound throughout a wide dynamic range, complete virtuosity and a structural sense that gives ...