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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1
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Artist
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Emil Gilels, piano. Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano della RAI. Fernando Previtali, conductor.
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Label
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Urania
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Format
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CD
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Runtime/Release Date
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61'41/2006
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Label Number
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55204
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Daedalus Item Code
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27212
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Besides a mastery of line to encompass its long-breathed melodies, Tchaikovsky's first concerto "requires a superhuman stamina and the ability to handle virtually all of the difficulties inherent in the Romantic literature: scales, arpeggios, broken octaves, trills with melodies on top of them, fast chordal passages" (Fanfare). Just the year before this April 1956 performance, Emil Gilels had made a studio recording of this masterwork for RCA with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, and this live version from Milan has the same invigorating power. "As a Russian, the Concerto was evidently a signature tune. He plays it gracefully, as poetically as the inner moments demand, yet he is fully up to the crowd-pleasing bravura of the opening lines and the closing movement. It is a sweeping, authoritative, and highly dramatic interpretation that deserves a place on the listener's shelf next to Argerich, Cliburn, and Wild."—Sensible Sound
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