I heard Gilels at the Royal Festival Hall in the 70s...he played Mozart's Fantasia in D minor, the Schumann Nachtstucke, the four Brahms Ballades, and presumably something else! I still remember how haunting the last pages of the fourth Ballade were....
Most recently I've played his live Melodia recording of Medtner's Sonata-reminiscenza. Terrific. He plays it in one great sweep.
Did David Owen Norris end up just slightly selling him short? His Schubert has been well received, and his Beethoven is surely not to be dismissed as striving for the heroic, etc. However, he was the one who listened to the 80 CDs!
Most recently I've played his live Melodia recording of Medtner's Sonata-reminiscenza. Terrific. He plays it in one great sweep.
Did David Owen Norris end up just slightly selling him short? His Schubert has been well received, and his Beethoven is surely not to be dismissed as striving for the heroic, etc. However, he was the one who listened to the 80 CDs!
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