Kirill Gerstein, Katia Skanavi, Thomas Adès, Ruzan Mantashyan – Debussy / Komitas: Music in Time of War (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:21:00 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Myrios Classics
Music in Time of War, the new double-album from pianist Kirill Gerstein, places the music of Komitas, pioneer of ethnomusi- cology and founder of the Armenian national school of music, alongside that of Claude Debussy, a seminal composer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who held a deep admiration of Komitas’s music. Both composers were profoundly affected by the implosion of their worlds – Komitas by the Armenian Genocide, Debussy by the First World War – and their music reflects a close emotional alignment. Music in Time of War grew from Gerstein’s fascination with music’s power to reflect a narrative. The project will be released as a double CD album and will be accompanied by a hardcover book containing a series of illustrations and detailed essays in three languages commissioned by the pianist.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko, Kirill Gerstein – Rachmaninoff 150 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:51 minutes | 766 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Berliner Philharmoniker pay tribute to the Russian jubilee: Rachmaninoff 150 Juxtaposes an outstanding performance of the famous Second Piano Concerto with Kirill Gerstein and Kirill Petrenko with a selection of solo works for piano.
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Kirill Gerstein, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson – The Gershwin Moment – Rhapsody in Blue & Concerto in F (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:43 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Myrios Classics
After several albums respectively dedicated to Liszt’s Transcendental Études or Mussogorsky and Schumann, or to Concertos by Tchaikovsky (the First) and Prokofiev (the Second) for the Myrios Classics label, Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein is diving into the colourful and rhythmical world of Gershwin. Happily, he has chosen the Jazz Band (1924) version of Rhapsody in Blue, which he has transformed into an almost-cubist work, in perfect symbiosis with the equally-keen work of David Robertson: the piano-playing is really angular, sometimes chilling; the brass recalls the most modernist work of Bartók or Prokofiev or the new American music, at the start of the 1920s. The same goes for 1925’s Concerto in F, the extraordinary Earl Wild’s cool playing under the direction of Arthur Fiedler (RCA, 1959) dissipates with Gerstein and Robertson, to make way for more percussive sounds. Kirill Gerstein also offers – this album being made up of recordings made in concert – various arrangements (or paraphrases) of some of the more famous American songs, including a particularly juicy I Got Rhythm from Earl Wild. A particularly stimulating album for the winter months.
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Kirill Gerstein & Thomas Adès – Thomas Adès: In Seven Days (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:47 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Myrios Classics
Kirill Gerstein’s decade long relationship with British composer and pianist Thomas Adès is reflected through this latest release from myrios classics. Recorded in the luxurious acoustics of the Symphony Hall in Boston, the three Mazurkas for solo piano feature alongside the world premiere recordings of Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel and the concert paraphrase on Powder Her Face for two pianos performed with the composer. Together with these works is In Seven Days for piano and orchestra which anticipated Adès’s recent piano concerto written, like Berceuse, especially for Kirill. The live performance was captured in the Seiji Ozawa Hall as part of the 2018 Tanglewood Music Festival, with Adès conducting the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra.
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Czech Philharmonic, Kirill Gerstein & Semyon Bychkov – Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies and Piano Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 08:17:10 minutes | 8,55 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Studio recordings are rare things today. Orchestras are of such great quality that publishers prefer live recordings, which are much cheaper than long studio sessions, with their complex production workloads. And so this is a rather “old-fashioned” (it’s fashionable) publication here from Decca, directed by Smyon Bychkov, a conductor who has rarely appeared on records for some years.
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Kirill Gerstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès – Adès Conducts Adès (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:59 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
In March this year, Thomas Adès, one of the most acclaimed and most frequently performed contemporary composers of our time, conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Gerstein performing the world premiere of his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Comissioned by the BSO for Kirill Gerstein the work already is becoming part of the concert repertoire worldwide.
This live recording of what turned out to be a ravishing celebration of contemporary music, receiving rapturous response from audience and critics alike, is paired on the album with Adès’s 2013 work Totentanz.
Totentanz brings together baritone (Mark Stone) and mezzo-soprano (Christianne Stotijn) soloists with a (very) large orchestra, unfolding a dialogue between a charismatic and gleefully macabre Grim Reaper and the procession of his many victims, from Pope to Maiden and Child.
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