Firma Melodiya presents recordings of J.S. Bach"s works performed by Emil Gilels and continues the series of recordings made by the great pianist. These recordings suggest a different view on Gilels"s performing art. Emil Gilels entered the music life of the USSR as a virtuoso in the best, romantic sense of the word. He conquered the world with his performances of Beethoven"s sonatas, Mozart"s works in Salzburg, and interpretations of Tchaikovsky"s and Rachmaninoff"s concertos. It was difficult to assume that a well-established stereotype of romantic pianist hid an inspired and profound interpreter of Bach"s music. Johann Sebastian Bach never was a foundation of Gilels"s repertoire. Rather, those were individual pieces, but that was exactly what made them, among different music, so unexpected at his concerts. Not claiming to be authentic and at the same time not falling into excessive romanticism, Emil Gilels shapes his own unique vision of the great cantor"s music world.