Emil Gilels plays Mendelssohn (vaimusic.com)
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Emil Gilels plays "Songs without Words, Op. 38, No. 6 "Duetto".
From: VAI DVD 4466 Emil Gilels Live in Moscow Vol. 1
Gilels (1916-1985) was one of the 20th centurys foremost pianists. Like many Russian artists of his era, he was virtually unknown in the West until the cultural thaw of the mid-50s. Though Gilels repertoire was far-ranging, the music of the German Romantic era benefited particularly from his burnished tone, strong technique and unfussy yet elegant musicianship. The 1983 recital preserved on this DVD is devoted to the music of Schumann, Brahms, and Mendelssohn, including Brahmss Paganini Variations (Book I) and Schumanns Symphonic Etudes.
93 minutes, Color, All regions.
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The soprano voice answered by a tenor, and after exchanging soft words, they join voices to sing the song in octaves. The perfect representation of love. Mendelssohn gave this to his bride as a wedding gift. A great companion-piece to Schumann's bridal gift for Clara, Widmung.
Gilels was a master. Mendelssohn was also a master. This is a fabulous video. A tribute to two great musicians and a great treat for us.
These pieces are songs without words and you hear the piece singing....who needs words with it played so wonderfully as this?!
I have never heard this piece in this slow tempo and it made me to realise this is where true genius come! obviously he sees another dimension of this piece! All my life I loved the way he played Beethoven. I was wondering when he played what was he he thinking???? Poetic true musician!!!
This is the most incredible performance of the piece I have ever heard, I play this piece truly aspiring to meet Gilels standards...and fail. He is incredible.
What to say? Just - a beauty of music. Old russian school... the best school !
Great playing. All life experience, wisdom
and humaneness in this performance.
Thank you.
You know what? It is example, very excellent example of what GREAT MUSICIAN should sounds like. This is not just good playing, no it is not just, IT is LIFE, Life itself look at you with sad eyes and talk to you. Only a few have this ability. Gilels among them. Rest in peace maestro
Two voices singing to each other. Gilels has, in my ears, given the most expressive rendition ever. Thank you.
Gilels lives on in his music......beautiful...the touch of a master pianist.
By far, a true Romantic, who is able to delve into the deepest depths of human emotion.
Simple , exquisite, direct, much like the man himself. I had the honor
of hearing Gilels in Westchester, New York 50 years ago. I never forgot how beautifully he played that night.
This piece of music gives me the feel of a prayer flowing down a smooth river. I love it.
j'adore le tempo qu'il prend même si ce ne pas écrit il l'assume trés bien car il chante merveilleusement bien .Merci pour c'est magnifique video
Merveilleuse interpretation
Thank you SO much - I enjoyed this immensely - how lovely to hear this performed with such feeling and interpretation.
interpretation without words. wonderful emil gilels!
Few pianists could make the piano sing like Gilels (Horowitz and a handful others could). This is simply incredibly beautiful.
göttliche Komposition - göttlich gespielt!!!
The way Emil Gilels bites upon his lower lip is unspeakably moving. The acoustics of the hall are rather crude for this son of the Gods.
Oh, I do love this amazing man!!!!💕💕💕🙏💐💐💐💐
What a Masterpiece! So talking...Pure beauty and mastery in everything! Bravo, indeed!
Love that "Brrrrrrrravo!" at the end. Just about sums it up.
He obviously loved playing this.
Tout est dit dans les commentaires qui précèdent, cette interprétation est en tout point admirable.
DUET in A flat--the greatest of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words.
How can anybody criticize Gillels's performance? Gilels is Gilels!
Deep nourishment for the soul!
Incredibly beautiful, honest and personal playing. Pianists LISTEN and no funny movements or faces to distract. Great pianist here.
Giving us pure music
Atemberaubend schön!!!
incredible, amazing performance...
indeed... only a master pianist such as gilels could make the piano sing in this way
It is wonderful
Ik heb Gilils ooit life horen spelen. Onvergetelijk!!! Ook al is dit 40 jaar geleden. Zijn pianospel is zo indringend! Ik kan zijn uitvoeringen een oneindig aantal keer beluisteren.
My word!! What a magnificent piece of playing. The sound and the control of line. Gilels was simply superb even at the end of his career.
Very good.I like him.
сразу видно играет большой музыкант! Какая фразировка! он словно разговаривает, а не играет. Deep Respect!
Gilels是我最喜愛的鋼琴家之一。
他和Richter都師於紐豪斯門下。兩個人都是絕世奇才！他們的演奏都具有十足的內涵。相較於現代年輕一輩的鋼琴家們的比快比音量，真是該適時學習、瞻仰一下真正鋼琴大師的音樂丰采。
Here, tempo should be related to how able one is to create and sustain the singing lines. I can't think of any pianist who could do this more beautifully - to spin, grade, colour, deepen, lighten, fade, crescendo; the burnished quality of his tone, approached in the manner of a very great singer. And how are these works titled? Yes, it is much slower than the basic indication, but Mendelssohn can be problematic in textures needing to be carefully balanced; tempo directions can often seem glib.
Yesss! ❤🔥
es uno de los más grandes Maestros.
gracias de todo corazón...
tout simplement merveilleux et incroyable
magnifiquement grand
A thought on why this performance is slower than previous ones...people tend to get more introspective and thoughtful as they age. I love this slower pace.
This is soooooo good
My edition of Liede ohne Wörte indicates a higher tempo, but I'm not sure if that was Mendelssohn intention. However, Gilels makes a valid pint of his tempo through his own thoughtful, deep intepretation. IMHO
It's Mendelson 's Tempo--Andante
From to eternity with love ❤
I agree with you. One may not like him, but criticize him? Gilels is Gilels, like Arrau is Arrau. Case closed.
"Too slow" doesn't exist. Yes he plays it much slower than most other players...but who cares? From the first note you know that for HIM it had to be this tempo and his performance brought me to tears.
So what's your point...mechanicalness over taste? Well...good luck.
Truely poetic pianist. I love the tempo here ! Indeed slower but who cares ? He delivers right words to my ear!!! I love all his beethoven s too💐💐💐💐💐💐🥰🥰🥰💕💕💕
He played it much faster in his youth, and it sounded hurried ... just too fast. This version is much better. It is the right speed (for Gilels - other musicians will make it work at different tempi) to express the musical meaning of the piece
Music isn't praying to God. That belittles the greatness that it is. rather, it is "praying" to the universe. An infinitely majestic human creation, more beautiful because of how it came to be, without design by some mystical giant in the sky. The emotion is human alone, and thus, exquisite.
DG recently issued a CD of early recordings of Gilels...interestingly the 1947 recording of this piece is considerably faster with a recording time of 3'09.
Check out the video called "Young GILELS plays MENDELSSOHN Lied ohne Worte " - Younger Gilels played this much much faster - the tempo we hear here is the result of mature deliberation.
Hey, who quoted Gilels? Who owns that quote? - It's beautifull.
Is this january 9 1983? if so , how immense can a difference be? Listen to his recital two days earlier. I am not judging the difference. It is just two universes by the same master.
Rudolf Saltet
Yay! I just found out that I can give "joannachhuang" the "thumbs down" and "pianocommy" the thumbs up two days in a row. :)
@grasscob
Music is not praying.
Geert Dehoux, pianist.
Murray Perahia is a one of the greatest pianists of our time and, specifically, a Bach interpreter on par with Richter and Edwin Fischer. you can express your sorrow about this as much as you like
having said that, while his interpretation of this piece is fine, it doesn't come close to Gilels' unfathomably profound and unbearably beautiful meditation upon love, life and death...
Best one on YT so far. Barenboim's is awful.
His playing is a bit too slow. Makes it sound draggy. Murray Perahia's version makes the piece move along much more smoothly without getting bored. The original tempo is much much faster than this.
Too slow for me,sounds like he is sight reading and learning it for the first time, I know he isn't but that is what it sounds like, Murray Perahia's version is more like the tempo it should be and it sounds more romantic because of it.
Some of the most articulate, tasteful and amazing people swear like sailors. Vulgar tastes aren't something to be derided either.
The real reason you can say this person has vulgar tastes is because the only reason they say it sucks is because it's "to slow". Also I'd be quite happy to ridicule their intelligence based on their terrible use of (non-vulgar) language.
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This is piano playing.
just sounds like slow practice to me, if you like it, fair enough...
@Axotrotl obviously not the gift of spelling. spel fale
I'm on your side here, but too slow does exist.
I see no impediment to talking about Murray Perahia at this day and age: his three odd decades in the front ranks of contemporary pianists render him immune to the kind of patronage that you exercise in the name of past greats as if he were some modish young thing
somehow it hardly comes as a mighty surprise that your solipsistic spouts should be couched in dreadful syntax...
@schmitty135 Yeah, and Zidane was a bad playmaker. Maybe your neighbor's kid can teach him, too.
the opposite of barenboim
@Tibbershet theological nonsense
this slow it sounds lifeless, not impressed