Emil Gilels performs sonatas by Beethoven, Mozart, and Schumann – a first-time release on DVD A specialist of the German repertoire and master of the miniature form, the great Russian pianist Emil Gilels performed an all German-Austrian program at the Carinthian Summer Festival in 1971 Emil Gilels, universally acclaimed for his breathtaking performances of the most demanding pieces of piano literature, delivers a virtuosic, emotionally charged rendering of these works “One can listen to Gilels’s Beethoven for hours on end without wishing a single passage to be differently phrased or moulded.” (Sunday Times) “Virtuosity with a human face” (Gramophone reviewing Gilels) EMIL GILELS Recital Werke von / Works by Beethoven · Mendelssohn Mozart · Schumann