Warner Music Original Jackets - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, CD Classic

'Any Gilels record is an event of the first magnitude,' wrote Gramophone when these Tchaikovsky recordings originally appeared in 1973. In its words the Odessa-born pianist, 'a stupendous lion of the keyboard', offered 'artistry of the highest integrity.' His insights in the much-loved Piano Concerto No 1 'evoked all the immediacy of a new discovery … The bravura is stirring, the lyricism melting [and] the over-riding impression is of playing of exciting authority and character (…) Maazel ensures that no detail of Tchaikovsky's lovely scoring is lost.'