Emil Gilels, widely considered one of the greatest concert pianists of the century, died Monday in Moscow at age 68, the Moscow Conservatory of Music announced Tuesday. His British agent, Wilfred ...

Pianist Artur Rubinstein was passing through Odessa one day in 1931 when a piano teacher cornered him and insisted on dragging him off to the local conservatory to hear her pupils. “You know how ...

Emil Gilels, a Soviet pianist renowned throughout the world for his passionate renditions of the classical composers, died at the age of 68, an official said Tuesday.An official at the Moscow ...

Nowhere are Beethoven's gifts as a composer more evident than in his sonatas for the piano. They contain what was, from the start, his most personal musical expression. The piano was his instrument, ...

Emil Gilels is well known as a Beethoven interpreter. His approach is characterized by a full bodied sound throughout a wide dynamic range, complete virtuosity and a structural sense that gives ...

The first Soviet artist of stature to perform in the U.S. since Composer-Pianist Sergei Prokofiev’s visit 34 years ago is Emil Gilels, who comes as Soviet Russia’s “foremost pianist.” Following the ...

The title of the disc is almost a misnomer. Yes, all of this music is by Bach. But the organ Prelude and Fugue in D-major is heard in a piano transcription by Ferruccio Busoni and Bach. Busoni is ...