Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
31	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	1	2	3	4

Emil Gilels - Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos (1993)

Posted By: tirexiss

Date: 15 Nov 2023 13:23:22

Gilels was a true king of pianists, and these Paris- and New York-based recordings only confirm his legendary status. Here, again, is that superlative musicianship, that magisterial technique and, above all, that unforgettable sonority.
What breadth and distinction he brings to the first movement of the Saint-Saëns, from his fulmination in the central octave uproar to his uncanny stillness in the final pages. High jinks are reserved for the second and third movements, the former tossed off with a teasing lightness, the latter's whirling measures with infinite brio. An approximate swipe at the Scherzo's flashing double-note flourish, a false entry and a wrong turning five minutes into the finale offer amusing evidence of Gilels's high-wire act. No performance of this concerto is more 'live', and it's small wonder that Claudio Arrau included it among his desert island favourites.
Gilels's Rachmaninov is altogether more temperate yet, once more, this is among the few truly great performances of this work. His tempo is cool and rapid, and maintained with scintillating ease through even the most formidable intricacy. The cadenza – the finer and more transparent of the two – billows and recedes in superbly musical style and the climax is of awe-inspiring grandeur and the central scherzando in the finale is as luminous as it's vivacious.
The finale's meno mosso variation is excluded and, it has to be said, Cluytens's partnership is distant and run of the mill. But the recordings hardly show their age in such admirably smooth transfers. Gilels's 'encore', Shostakovich's Prelude and Fugue No 5 is like a brilliant shaft of light after the Rachmaninov. The performance is perfection, entirely justifying Arthur Rubinstein's comment after hearing him play in Russia: 'If that boy comes to the West, I shall have to shut up shop'.

prestomusic

Track List:

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
01. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22- 1. Andante sostenuto [0:11:22.03]
02. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22- 2. Allegro scherzando [0:05:14.40]
03. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22- 3. Finale (Presto) [0:06:18.67]
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
04. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30- 1. Allegro ma non tanto [0:15:09.35]
05. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30- 2. Intermezzo (Adagio) [0:10:03.08]
06. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30- 3. Finale (Alla breve) [0:13:22.67]
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
07. Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 5 in D major, Op. 87-5- Prelude (Allegretto) [0:01:25.23]
08. Prelude & Fugue for piano No. 5 in D major, Op. 87-5- Fugue (Allegretto) [0:01:48.35]

Performers:
Emil Gilels - piano
Orchestre de la Société de Concerts du Conservatoire
André Cluytens - conductor

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 17. June 2013, 20:49

Emil Gilels / Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos - Emil Gilels

Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-222BB Adapter: 2 ID: 1

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "TRACKTOTAL=%numtracks%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %source% -o %dest%

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.32 | 11:22.03 | 32 | 51184
2 | 11:22.35 | 5:14.40 | 51185 | 74774
3 | 16:37.00 | 6:18.67 | 74775 | 103191
4 | 22:55.67 | 15:09.35 | 103192 | 171401
5 | 38:05.27 | 10:03.08 | 171402 | 216634
6 | 48:08.35 | 13:22.67 | 216635 | 276851
7 | 61:31.27 | 1:25.23 | 276852 | 283249
8 | 62:56.50 | 1:48.35 | 283250 | 291384

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename G:\Ripped general\[2162] Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov – Piano Concertos – Emil Gilels\Saint-Saens, Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos - Emil Gilels.wav

Peak level 99.2 %
Extraction speed 2.3 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC C89D1BB6
Copy CRC C89D1BB6
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [67031144] (AR v1)
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [19A2E59A] (AR v1)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [8ADE9B33] (AR v1)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [2940F8D1] (AR v1)
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [CD907E48] (AR v1)
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [3BDD81B6] (AR v1)
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [552C18E5] (AR v1)
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [5684AC60] (AR v1)

All tracks accurately ripped

End of status report

Thanks to the Original ripper (unknown)!

Welcome to my blog!

Download:

Download from icerbox.com

Emil Gilels Saint-Saens Rachmaninov Piano Concerto Classical FLAC CD-Rip Testament 1993