Это масштабное юбилейное издание фирмы «Мелодия» (бокс-сет из 50 дисков), посвященное столетию великого Эмиля Гилельса. Основу компиляции составляют его сольные фортепианные записи, а также концерты для фортепиано с оркестром.

CD 1
Recorded in 1935–1949.
Franz Liszt – Ferruccio Busoni
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – Leopold Godowsky
Francis Poulenc
Claude Debussy – Leonard Borwick
Franz Liszt
Johannes Brahms
Frédéric Chopin
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Carl Tausig
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Pieces

CD 2
Recorded in 1947–1949.
Frédéric Chopin
Pieces
Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Valse oubliée No. 1
Claude Debussy
Images, Book I

CD 3
Recorded in 1946–1950.
Ludwig van Beethoven
32 Variations in C minor
Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 & 28
Robert Schumann
Piano Sonata No. 2

CD 4
Recorded in 1954.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1
Recorded in 1952.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2
Emil Gilels, piano
The USSR State Academic Symphony
Orchestra
Conductor – Kirill Kondrashin

CD 5
Recorded in 1951.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1
Emil Gilels, piano
The USSR State Academic Symphony
Orchestra
Conductor – Konstantin Ivanov
Recorded in 1958.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2
Emil Gilels, piano
The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor – Kurt Sanderling

CD 6
Recorded in 1947–1951.
César Cui
Violin Sonata in D major
Alexander Borodin
Piano Trio in D major
Alexander Alyabiev
Piano Trio in A minor
Violin Sonata in E minor
Emil Gilels, piano
Elizaveta Gilels, violin
Dmitri Tsyganov, violin
Sergei Shirinsky, cello

CD 7
Recorded in 1951.
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Sonata in A major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonatas Nos. 8 & 35
Joseph Haydn
Violin Sonata No. 1
Elizaveta Gilels, violin
Emil Gilels, piano

CD 8
Recorded in 1952.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Trio (Divertimento) in B flat major
Recorded in 1950.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in E flat major
Emil Gilels, piano
Leonid Kogan, violin
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Recorded in 1958.
Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quartet No. 1
Emil Gilels, piano
Leonid Kogan, violin
Rudolf Barshai, viola
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello

CD 9
Recorded live on March 15, 1949.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1
Emil Gilels, piano
The USSR State Academic Symphony
Orchestra
Conductor – Kirill Kondrashin

CD 10
Recorded live on November 1, 1948.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in B flat major, KV 570
Robert Schumann
Piano Sonata No. 1
Franz Liszt
Valse oubliée No. 1
La campanella from Grandes études de Paganini

CD 11
Recorded live on April 7, 1950.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in B flat major, KV 570
Robert Schumann
Carnaval
Frédéric Chopin
Maurice Ravel
Pieces

CD 12
Recorded live on 5 January, 1952.
George Frideric Handel
Chaconne in G major
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 3
Dmitri Shostakovich
Preludes and Fugues Nos. 1, 5, 24 from
24 Preludes and Fugues
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata No. 1

CD 13
Recorded live in 1948–1952.
Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Manuel de Falla
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Frédéric Chopin
Pieces

CD 14
Recorded live on March 3, 1950.
Alexander Glazunov
Piano Sonata No. 2
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 2
Mily Balakirev
Islamey
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Pieces

CD 15
Recorded live on March, 3 1950.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Six Pieces, Op. 19
Recorded live on March 2, 1957.
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata No. 4
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 3
Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Valse oubliée No. 1
Isaac Albéniz
Manuel de Falla
Pieces

CD 16
Recorded live on January 23, 1951.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 4
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Piano Concerto No. 1
Emil Gilels, piano
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Kirill Kondrashin

CD 17
Recorded live on March 4, 1951.
César Franck
Symphonic Variations
Frédéric Chopin
Andante spianato et Grande polonaise
brillante
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 2
Emil Gilels, piano
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Karl Eliasberg
Franz Liszt
La campanella from Grandes études de Paganini

CD 18
Recorded live on May 14, 1953.
Frédéric Chopin
Variations on Là ci darem la mano
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Arno Babajanian
Heroic Ballade
Camille Saint-Saëns
Finale from Piano Concerto No. 2
Emil Gilels, piano
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra

CD 19
Recorded live on October 3, 1954.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in B flat major, KV 570
Claude Debussy
Images, Book I
Estampes
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 2
Pieces

CD 20
Recorded live on February 23, 1957.
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonatas
Robert Schumann
Piano Sonata No. 1
Igor Stravinsky
Five Fragments from Petrushka

CD 21
Recorded in 1950–1957.
Mieczysław Weinberg
Piano Sonata No. 4
Johannes Brahms
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Claude Debussy
Isaac Albéniz
Pieces

CD 22
Recorded live on January 16, 1959.
Joseph Haydn
Piano Concerto in D major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo for piano and orchestra
Emil Gilels, piano
The Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Conductor – Rudolf Barshai
Recorded live on March 24, 1966.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4
Emil Gilels, piano
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor – Neeme Järvi

CD 23
Recorded in 1952.
Frédéric Chopin
Andante spianato et Grande polonaise
brillante
Recorded live on December 23, 1959.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2
Emil Gilels, piano
The USSR State Academic Symphony
Orchestra
Conductor – Kirill Kondrashin

CD 24
Recorded live on January 22, 1959.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria variata alla maniera italiana
Franz Schubert
Impromptu in F minor
Robert Schumann
Piano Sonata No. 1
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Piano Sonata No. 2

CD 25
Recorded live on December 12, 1960.
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonatas
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sonata in A major
Joseph Haydn
Sonata in C minor

CD 26
Recorded live on October 4 and 10, 1961.
Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Sonata No. 2
Robert Schumann
Piano Sonata No. 1

CD 27
Recorded live on April 9, 1962.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Piano Sonata in C sharp minor
Igor Stravinsky
Five Fragments from Petrushka
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 8

CD 28
Recorded live in 1959–1962.
Maurice Ravel
Franz Liszt
Igor Stravinsky
Frédéric Chopin
Muzio Clementi
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Johann Sebastian Bach – Аlexander Siloti
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Pieces

CD 29
Recorded live in Leningrad
on February 15, 1963.
Joseph Haydn
Sonata in C minor
Frédéric Chopin
Variations for piano solo
on Là ci darem la mano
Pieces
Aram Khachaturian
Piano Sonata

CD 30
Recorded live in Leningrad
on February 15, 1963, January 26, 1953.
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Frédéric Chopin
Francis Poulenc
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Pieces

CD 31
Recorded live on October 12–13, 1962.
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 1
Francis Poulenc
Concert champêtre
Emil Gilels, piano
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor – Kirill Kondrashin

CD 32
Recorded live on October 12 (13), 1962.
Franz Schubert – Dmitri Kabalevsky
Fantasia in F minor
Emil Gilels, piano
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Kirill Kondrashin
Camille Saint-Saëns
Le carnaval des animaux
Emil Gilels, piano
Yakov Zak, piano
Daniil Shafran, cello
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Karl Eliasberg
Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 1
Emil Gilels, piano
The Moscow Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra
Conductor – Kirill Kondrashin

CD 33
Recorded live on March 21, 1965.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 28
Johannes Brahms
7 Fantasien
Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Valse oubliée No. 1
Robert Schumann
Arabeske in C major

CD 34
Recorded live in Kiev on April 6, 1965.
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in A minor
Six moments musicaux
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No. 1

CD 35
Recorded live on April 22, 1966.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Emil Gilels, piano
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor – Neeme Järvi

CD 36
Recorded live on March 13, 1965.
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata No. 14
Six moments musicaux
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Sonata No. 2

CD 37
Recorded live on December 21 and 23, 1968.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonatas Nos. 8 & 14
Nikolai Medtner
Sonata-reminiscenza
Frédéric Chopin
Franz Schubert
Sergei Prokofiev
Maurice Ravel
Pieces

CD 38
Recorded live on January 26, 1967.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 28
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 8
Robert Schumann
Pieces

CD 39
Recorded live on October 18, 1967.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 21
12 Variations on the Russian Dance from
the ballet Das Waldmädchen by P. Wranitzky
32 Variations in C minor
Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Sonata No. 2

CD 40
Recorded live on January 5, 1970.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonatas, KV 281 & KV 310
Six Variations on Salve tu, Domine
Ten Variations on Unser dummer Pöbel meint
Fantasia in D minor

CD 41
Recorded live 1965–1972.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in F major, KV 533/494
Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise in C minor
Ballade No. 1
Franz Liszt
Rhapsodie espagnole
Sergei Prokofiev
Alexander Scriabin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Robert Schumann
Pieces

CD 42
Recorded live on January 3, 1970.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2
Recorded live on February 20, 1968.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 3
Rehearsal of Piano Concerto No. 3
Emil Gilels, piano
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Evgeny Svetlanov

CD 43
Recorded live on December 24 and 25, 1977.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 12
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Alexander Scriabin
Johann Sebastian Bach – Аlexander Siloti
Pieces

CD 44
Recorded live on February 12, 1976.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 16
Robert Schumann
Toccata in C major
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

CD 45
Recorded live on December 27, 1977.
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Sonata No. 3
Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms
Pieces

CD 46
Recorded live on October 20, 1980.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonatas Nos. 7, 25, 26, 27
Adolph von Henselt
Franz Liszt
Pieces

CD 47
Recorded live in 1970–1980.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Eroica Variations
Johannes Brahms
Robert Schumann
Frédéric Chopin
Pieces

CD 48
Recorded live on January 9, 1983.
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Paganini
7 Fantasien
Robert Schumann
Symphonic Etudes

CD 49
Recorded live on January 9, 1983.
Robert Schumann
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Pieces
Recorded live on January 26, 1984.
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata No. 3
Preludes, Op. 74
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 3

CD 50
Recorded live on January 26, 1984.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 29, Hammerklavier