Myrios
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Busoni: Piano Concerto
RecommendedRecorded live at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, March 10-11, 2017
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Gerstein and Oramo are impressive in their focus throughout the work’s opening movement, and the whirl forwards towards its close has a tremendous power to it…As [the slow movement] progresses,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Orchestral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Concerto
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Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, James Gaffigan
Perhaps the most striking aspect of Gerstein's interpretation is his ability to make the piano writing sound much lighter and more transparent than usual...Instead of the conventional barnstorming... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd March 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Concerto Finalist
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Debussy / Komitas: Music in Time of War
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano), Ruzan Mantashyan (soprano), Katia Skanavi (piano), Thomas Adès (piano)
the real thrust of this album lies in its championing of Armenia’s musical patron saint Komitas Vardapet, who single-handedly founded an Armenian musical tradition through collecting his country’s... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Special Award for Curatorial Achievement
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Brahms: String Quartet Op. 67 and Piano Quintet Op. 34
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano)
Hagen Quartett
This is technically flawless playing, and discipline and rigour also shape the interpretations. The plangent harmonies are kept firmly in order…The fine-boned vibrato is disciplined, occasional... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Nouveauté
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Es war einmal... (Once Upon a Time...)
Fairy Tales by Robert Schumann & Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Dénes Várjon (piano)
The first movement of Widmann’s piece has fragments in Schumannesque style floating in and out of focus…It’s an altogether impressive work, and Widmann is joined in this premiere recording by... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (19th-Century Music)
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Musique de chambre
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber Music
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Zimmermann & Gerstein: Sonatas for Viola & Piano Vol. 1
RecommendedTabea Zimmermann (viola) & Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Tabea Zimmermann achieves these whirling arabesques effortlessly, and she and Kirill Gerstein transform the atmosphere with deft economy as Debussy’s ghost materialises in a mournful second... —
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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He’s far from the first to do so, but Roth makes the once-heretical case, through judicious observance of the score and an acute ear for sonority, that Schumann knew what he was doing… The slimmer... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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amazing keyboard dexterity … ultra-clear articulation —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Roth chooses the Fourth’s lessperformed original version. Missing in action is the famous ‘hunting horn’ Scherzo: its predecessor is less cohesive and exciting. The first movement trades the... —
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Record Review, 15th April 2023, Record of the Week
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