Liu Shikun plays, Gilels kisses the winners video 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition

A short video from the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition of Emil Gilels embracing the first and second place winners (Van Cliburn, Lev Vlassenko and Liu Shikun), and Liu Shikun playing a part of the Tchaikovsky PC 1. Liu Shikun studied with Samuil Feinberg The first time I met Feinberg, he asked me if I played various pieces and I answered no to each one he named. You play nothing, he sighed. During the Cultural Revolution Liu Shikun was in prison for 6 years. A WSJ interview from 2013 recounts the time: Liu Shih Kun