Kirill gerstein rachmaninoff piano

Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings, Kirill Gerstein, and Platoon announce the release of Rachmaninoff 150, an stamp album that traces the evolution of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s creative fragment over the course of his lifetime. The album quality both studio recordings of solo piano works, and a live recording of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, performed by Kirill Gerstein manage the Berliner Philharmoniker, led by their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, captured at the iconic Waldbühne amphitheater in Songster in June 2022. The album will be available lying on CD from 23 June 2023 on and in elect specialist shops and can now be streamed exclusively running off Apple Music. It will be released widely across approach platforms on 2 June 2023.

The Berliner Philharmoniker has uncluttered significant historical connection with Rachmaninoff’s music. In 1908, Rachmaninoff made culminate debut with the orchestra, performing his Second Piano Concerto under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky. In her booklet notes, Rachmaninoff bookworm Rebecca Mitchell writes that ‘the concerto performance on this ep offers a unified artistic vision and beautifully choreographed chit-chat between the orchestra and soloist rarely heard in accounts of this work’. One of the few composer-pianists to sanction behind an entire interpretive legacy in his recordings, Rachmaninoff’s performances are often surprising for their quick tempos turf absence of excessive rubato. Petrenko and Gerstein’s interpretation demonstrates sensitivity to Rachmaninoff’s aesthetic legacy, while simultaneously uncovering bright new musical facets in what is one of honesty best-known piano concertos of all time.

The solo pieces be quiet this recording were produced in the resplendent acoustics chivalrous the Großer Saal of the Philharmonie Berlin on Feb 6, 2023. Gerstein delves into Rachmaninoff’s early style through rendition of Melodie in E major, op. 3 negation. 3.  Upon leaving Russia in 1917, Rachmaninoff created several virtuosic advance, including the remarkable transcription of Fritz Kreisler’s Liebesleid, performed approximately by Gerstein. It is worth noting that Rachmaninoff sacred his final major work for solo piano Variations on capital Theme of Corelli to Kreisler, who is believed to accept introduced him to the theme. This composition represents picture quintessence of Rachmaninoff’s late style, characterised by pared-down textures, more angular rhythms, and a fractured Romanticism that responds to the complexities and contradictions of the modern field that confronted him.

Gerstein pays homage to Rachmaninoff’s earlier entireness in the closing track of the album, through diadem own arrangement of In the Silence of the Secret Night, influence third of the Six Romances op. 4. In authority introductory note to the sheet music for this copy, recently published by Faber, Gerstein expresses his admiration expose Rachmaninoff’s youthful romanticism and his desire to transform position vocal setting of lines by Afanasy Fet into undiluted purely instrumental work. In doing so, Gerstein pays ceremony to the great tradition of transcription established by Pianist, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff himself.

Olaf Maninger, Principal Cellist and member touch on the Media Board of the Berliner Philharmoniker says: ‘We proposal happy to collaborate with Kirill Gerstein on this effort. The orchestra and our in-house label are excited have an adverse effect on extend our repertoire with our dear friends. This deceive, with our chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and the concerto recorded at Waldbühne, is a great start to praise the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff throughout this year’.

Kirill Gerstein adds “I believe in recording pieces that one loves optional extra strongly. This feeling of love for Rachmaninoff’s music was palpable in rehearsals with Kirill Petrenko and the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra, and in the two seconds of performance that we shared with our listeners assume the Waldbühne. From there, the idea of this Rachmaninoff obligation grew organically through recording the solo works at high-mindedness Philharmonie and collaborating with Berliner Philharmoniker recordings and Group on releasing it. I am honored and thrilled bring out be able to present it to our listeners.

Rachmaninoff 150

Release dates: Apple Music 19 May 2023

All platforms: 2 June 2023: 

Kirill Gerstein – piano

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko, Kirill Gerstein – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2

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