Btw these magnificent recordings were done for DG rather than Melodia, the Soviets just reissued them (my grandpa had all of them). Live recordings aside, Gilels only recorded in studio for Western labels since going beyond the Iron Curtain in the early 1950s, and exclusively for DG since 1970.
#27 he also recorded for BBC in the 1950s and sometimes I think I like it even better though the tempi are crazy fast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89v-...ncontrariomotu