Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings, Kirill Gerstein, and Platoon announce the release of Rachmaninoff 150, an album that traces the evolution of Sergei Rachmaninoff's creative vision over the course of his lifetime. The album features both studio recordings of solo piano works, and a live recording of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, performed by Kirill Gerstein with the Berliner Philharmoniker, led by their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, captured at the iconic Waldbühne amphitheater in Berlin in June 2022. The album is released exclusively on Apple Music on May 19 and widely across all platforms on June 2 2023.
This performance is a part of an upcoming recording release "Rachmaninoff 150" with solo works and the second Piano Concerto performed by Kirill Gerstein, Kirill Petrenko and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
NPR Tiny Desk welcomed Kirill Gerstein to perform live in their studio in Washington in March 2021. A small audience was treated to music by Liszt, Chopin and Gershwin. The concert also featured the first recorded performance of Thomas Adès’s Berceuse from his opera The Exterminating Angel written especially for Kirill.
Watch Kirill Gerstein play Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Paavo Järvi from October 2020
Kirill Gerstein gives the German première of Thomas Larcher's Piano Concerto written for him with Semyon Bychkov and the Berlin Philharmonic (recorded in December 2021 for Digital Concert Hall)
At the 2021 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Kirill Gerstein and HK Gruber performed songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht
Watch Kirill Gerstein play Thomas Adès's Souvenir from the film Colette recorded when he was in quarantine in Japan in December 2020
In October 2020, Kirill Gerstein performed Komitas's Unabi of Shushi live streamed from London's Wigmore Hall
As part of the 26th Singapore International Piano Festival, Kirill Gerstein played Beethoven’s Eroica Variations
Watch Kirill Gerstein play Chopin’s Grand valse as an encore after performing with the Detroit Symphony
Kirill Gerstein talks Brahms ahead of his performances of the First Piano Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic
Kirill Gerstein and Sir Andras Schiff play Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica for 2 pianos
Kirill Gerstein gives an insight into Thomas Adès’s Piano Concerto ahead of its UK premiere with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Watch Kirill Gerstein play I Got Rhythm (Earl Wild after George Gershwin) filmed during the break of The Gershwin Moment recording sessions
Kirill Gerstein and Thomas Adès perform Ravel’s La valse courtesy of Medici TV
Watch Kirill Gerstein and his teacher Ferenc Rados play Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F, KV 497 for four hands
Watch Kirill Gerstein play the Fugue from Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin at the Singapore International Piano Festival in June 2019