Brahms Concerto with Iván Fischer & the Budapest Festival Orchestra

Now in the Digital Concert Hall - Busoni Concerto with Berliner Philharmoniker

Busoni with Berliner Philharmoniker - October 17, 18 & 19

Busoni's Piano Concerto with Orchestre National de France - October 10

Feature on Liberation

Watch Messiaen "Des Canyons..." on Digital Concert Hall

"Music in Time of War" featured on NPR Performance Today

Berg's Kammerkonzert in Kronberg

Musikfest Berlin - Messiaen

Fono Forum - German classical magazine Interview

Kirill Gerstein sets new standards with Music in Time of War

New York Times Interview with Hugh Morris

Discography

Discography

Scriabin Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
Vasily Petrenko & Oslo Philharmonic

LAWO Classics
LWC1160

September 2018

<p>Scriabin Prometheus: The Poem of Fire<br />
Vasily Petrenko & Oslo Philharmonic</p>

Scriabin Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
Vasily Petrenko & Oslo Philharmonic

LAWO Classics
LWC1160

September 2018

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Once again listeners get to experience the fabulous partnership between Vasily Petrenko, Kirill Gerstein and the Oslo Philharmonic. LAWO Classics is pleased to present the final release in their critically acclaimed Scriabin series.

Awards

Presto Classical, Recordings of the Year 2018 – Our Top 100

1.	Symphony No. 1, Op. 26: I. Lento
2.	Symphony No. 1, Op. 26: II. Allegro dramatico
3.	Symphony No. 1, Op. 26: III. Lento
4.	Symphony No. 1, Op. 26: IV. Vivace
5.	Symphony No. 1, Op. 26: V. Allegro
6.	Symphony No. 1, Op. 26: VI. Andante
7.	Symphony No. 5, Op. 60: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire

Gerstein produces the elevated level of performance to which I have become accustomed.

MusicWeb International

Gerstein produces the elevated level of performance to which I have become accustomed.

MusicWeb International

NEWS

Kirill will perform Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra several times in Budapest and other European cities (Lugano, Rotterdam & Lyon), November 13-25.

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Kirill Gerstein will perform the Busoni Concerto for Piano, Male Choir and Orchestra with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Sakari Oramo.

Kirill Gerstein’s next performance of one of the most demanding pieces of the piano repertoire will be in Paris with conductor Sakari Oramo and the Orchestre National de France and the Choir of Radio France. The concert will be broadcasted by Radio France Musique.

Journalist Eric Dahan wrote a feature about Kirill Gerstein’s upcoming concert in Paris with Busoni’s Piano Concerto for the french newspaper Libération.

Watch now on DCH

You can now watch the performance with Sir Simon Rattle, Kirill Gerstein, Stefan Dohr and the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,, recorded on September 17, at the Digital Concert Hall if you register on their platform, for free!

Listen to Fred Child’s recent conversation with Kirill on NPR about the project and how it reflects on the world.

Kirill Gerstein and Ilya Gringolts are the soloists in Alban Berg's Kammerkonzert, on the 25th of September at the Casals Forum at the Kronberg Academy Festival.

Heinz Holliger will be conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Photo: ©Patricia Truchsess / Kronberg Academy

"Des Canyons aux étoiles …" with Sir Simon Rattle at the Philharmonie

The Karajan Academy under Simon Rattle will perform Olivier Messiaen’s “Des Canyons aux étoiles…” with Kirill Gerstein, Stefan Dohr, Ralph Hager and Jan Schlichte, as closing concert of Musikfest Berlin. The concert will be broadcasted by rbb3.

Pianist Kirill Gerstein combines Debussy and Komitas in an unexpectedly relevant project

Read the whole interview with Arnt Cobbers, Editor-in-chief of Fono Forum.

"When devised with thorough craft and devoted care, musical albums can truly transcend beyond mere vessels for recorded tracks and become genuine works of art in themselves."

Read the entire review on the blog of Finnish music journalist Jari Kallio.

Read the NYTimes feature on "Music in Time of War"

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