Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Among the recordings on which Gilbert plays are pre-war LPO sets under Beecham, including a series of Mozart symphonies, recorded across several years beginning in 1934, and, with Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic, symphonies by Haydn and Schubert, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade", Richard Strauss's "Ein Heldenleben", works by Delius, and many French pieces, including Debussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" with its prominent opening flute solo. With Fritz Reiner and the RPO Gilbert recorded Brahms's Fourth Symphony and with Rafael Kubelík and the RPO, Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra".