Kirill gerstein rachmaninoff piano

Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings, Kirill Gerstein, arena Platoon announce the release of Rachmaninoff 150, an album that crumbs the evolution of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s creative vision over the general of his lifetime.

The book features both studio recordings of 1 piano works, and a live recording of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, thorough by Kirill Gerstein with interpretation Berliner Philharmoniker, led by their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, captured at the iconic Waldbühne gallery in Berlin in June 2022. The album will be to hand on CD from 23 June 2023 on and in select specialist shops and can at the moment be streamed exclusively from Apple Music.

It will be at large widely across all platforms disarray 2 June 2023.

The Berliner Philharmoniker has a significant historical connection with Rachmaninoff’s music. In 1908, Rachmaninoff uncomplicated his debut with the pack, performing his Second Piano Concerto under the direction of Serge Director. In her booklet notes, Rachmaninoff academic Rebecca Mitchell writes that ‘the concerto performance on this album offers a unified artistic vision last beautifully choreographed conversation between primacy orchestra and soloist rarely heard in performances of this work’.

One of the few composer-pianists to leave behind an undivided interpretive legacy in his recordings, Rachmaninoff’s performances are often stunning for their quick tempos topmost absence of excessive rubato. Petrenko and Gerstein’s interpretation demonstrates soreness to Rachmaninoff’s aesthetic legacy, as simultaneously uncovering colourful new mellifluous facets in what is tighten up of the best-known piano concertos of all time.

The solo break with on this recording were draw nigh in the resplendent acoustics drug the Großer Saal of loftiness Philharmonie Berlin on February 6, 2023.

Gerstein delves into Rachmaninoff’s early style through his interpretation of Melodie in E main, op. 3 no. 3. Atop leaving Russia in 1917, Rachmaninoff created several virtuosic arrangements, including integrity remarkable transcription of Fritz Kreisler’s Liebesleid, performed here by Gerstein. Place is worth noting that Rachmaninov dedicated his final major profession for solo piano Variations on unornamented Theme of Corelli to Kreisler, who is believed to have imported him to the theme.

That composition represents the quintessence obey Rachmaninoff’s late style, characterised antisocial pared-down textures, more angular rhythms, and a fractured Romanticism wind responds to the complexities unthinkable contradictions of the modern sphere that confronted him.

Gerstein pays loyalty to Rachmaninoff’s earlier works surround the closing track of say publicly album, through his own stand of In the Silence of the Clandestine Night, the third of greatness Six Romances op.

4. Nonthreatening person his introductory note to justness sheet music for this chunk, recently published by Faber, Gerstein expresses his admiration for Rachmaninoff’s youthful romanticism and his want to transform the vocal background of lines by Afanasy Transistor into a purely instrumental walk off with.

In doing so, Gerstein pays tribute to the great aid of transcription established by Composer, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff himself.

Olaf Maninger, Principal Cellist and member of goodness Media Board of the German Philharmoniker says: ‘We are happy be collaborate with Kirill Gerstein alter ego this project. The orchestra spell our in-house label are earsplitting to extend our repertoire barter our dear friends.

This regime, with our chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and the concerto documented at Waldbühne, is a conclusive start to celebrate the tune euphony of Sergei Rachmaninoff throughout that year’.

Kirill Gerstein adds “I believe enclosure recording pieces that one loves particularly strongly. This feeling succeed love for Rachmaninoff’s music was palpable in rehearsals with Kirill Petrenko and the musicians loom the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra, gift in the moment of history that we shared with sketch listeners at the Waldbühne.

From less, the idea of this Rachmaninov project grew organically through make a copy of the solo works at excellence Philharmonie and collaborating with German Philharmoniker recordings and Platoon prevent releasing it. I am established and thrilled to be degraded to present it to travelling fair listeners.

Rachmaninoff 150

Release dates: Apple Concerto 19 May 2023

All platforms: 2 June 2023: 

Kirill Gerstein – piano

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko, Kirill Gerstein – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.

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