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Emil Gilels
When in 2015 Australia's classical music and arts magazine Limelight asked 100
of today's best pianists to name the ten greatest pianists of all time,
Odessa-born Emil Gilels ranked fifth behind Arthur Rubinstein, Sviatoslav
Richter and Vladimir Horowitz with Sergei Rachmaninov in first place. French
pianist Cédric Tiberghien called Gilels' recording of Brahms's 'Second Concerto'
with the Berlin Philharmonic "one of the most beautiful recordings ever made of
a piano concerto" and said: "The quality of tone and line, the inspiration and
the beauty of the sound - everything is so p...
