Latest stories
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Kirill Gerstein on Music in Time of War
8th Jul 2024
The Russian-American pianist discusses his new album of music which Debussy and Komitas composed in the wake of the outbreak of World War One and the Armenian genocide respectively - exploring why music written in dark times so often contains 'an incredible amount of exuberance, kaleidoscopic colour and life-affirmation'.
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Kirill Gerstein on Busoni
20th Feb 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about his recording of the Italian composer’s gargantuan Piano Concerto of 1904, released this week on Myrios with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo.
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Kirill Gerstein on The Gershwin Moment
1st Mar 2018
The pianist talks to Katherine about his new album, which includes the jazz-band version of Rhapsody in Blue, the Piano Concerto in F, and song transcriptions by Earl Wild.
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Kirill Gerstein on Tchaikovsky
6th Aug 2016
Ahead of his Proms performance of the First Piano Concerto tomorrow, the pianist talks to David about the various versions of the work.
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Russian Cello and Piano Concertos from Steven Isserlis and Kirill Gerstein
2nd Mar 2015
David listens to a pair of new releases that throw light on early versions of concertos by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.
