🎼Historical Footage Series 🎶 Emil Gilels, age 61, performing Chopin’s Polonaise in A-flat major “Heroic” (Op. 53), in Moscow, 1977. • Gilels was born in 1916 in Odessa, Ukraine. After his parents discovered he had perfect pitch at the age of five, he began piano lessons with Yakov Tkach, a famous piano pedagogue in Odessa. Gilels was a quick learner and made rapid progress, later crediting this strict training with Tkach for establishing the foundation of his technique and in turn, Tkach comme

Emil Gilels plays the last movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A minor, D 784. Simply amazing, phenomenal élan, crystal-clear articulation and everything is inspired! Recorded in Germany in 1968. For FG in Paris ;-) | Meloclassic

🎹✨ Today we celebrate pianist Emil Gilels, born in 1916! Did you know he was nicknamed the "Titan" because of the very special way his hands took possession of the keyboard? Enjoy this incredible archival footage in which he attacks the first notes of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 as a lion would attack his prey. 🎹✨ https://bit.ly/48bUL81 | medici.tv

To honour the 40th anniversary of Emil Gilels’ death, his recordings of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces are being released in this audiophile Original Source Edition. The recordings have been newly cut and mastered from the original 4-track tapes for the first time, and they undoubtedly represent a milestone in piano history. | Deutsche Grammophon - DG