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Kirill Gerstein

Classical CD Reviews: Philip Glass, “Music in Eight Parts,” Thomas Adès, “In Seven Days,” and Anna Clyne, “Dance”

Music in Eight Parts is a welcome and inviting addition to the Philip Glass canon; the Summer of Thomas Adès continues with a stirring new recording of the British composer’s keyboard work; Anna Clyne’s Dance is, without a doubt, one of the finest pieces I’ve heard this year.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Anna Clyne, Avie, Inbal Segev, Kirill Gerstein, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin-Alsop, Music in 8 Parts, Myrios, Orange Mountain Music, Philip Glass, Thomas Ades

Classical CD Reviews: Thomas Adès’s Orchestral Works, Aaron Copland’s Symphony no. 3, and Leonard Bernstein’s “Songfest”

A terrific release showcases the Boston Symphony Orchestra and composer Thomas Adès. Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony deliver a radiantly honest recording of Aaron Copland’s Symphony 3.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aaron-Copland, Deutsche Grammophon, Kirill Gerstein, Leonard Berstein, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, Naxos, SFS Media, Songfest, Thomas Ades, Totentanz

Classical CD Reviews: The Tchaikovsky Project, Schumann Symphonies nos. 2 & 4, and Holst Orchestral Works

Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic do justice to a lot of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral music, while John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony play Robert Schumann’s famously-dense orchestrations with clarity. But Michael Stern’s account of The Planets completely lacks mystery.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Decca, John Eliot Gardiner, Kirill Gerstein, London-Symphony-Orchestra, LSO Live, Michael Stern, Reference Recordings, Semyon Bychkov

Classical Concert Review: Thomas Adès conducts Liszt, Adès, and Tchaikovsky

The BSO recently announced an extension to artistic partner Thomas Adès’s contract. It is lucky to have him. So are the rest of us.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Ades

Classical CD Reviews: Gerstein plays Busoni, Josefowicz plays Zimmermann, and Vähälä plays Szymanowski

Pianist Kirill Gerstein’s take on Busoni is exhilarating; the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra serves the forceful music of composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and violinist Elina Vähälä does right by Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: accentus, Alexander Liebreich, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Elina Vähälä, Karol Szymanowski, Kirill Gerstein, Myrios, Ondine, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo

Classical CD Reviews: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Schumann and “The Gershwin Moment”

The San Francisco Symphony delivers performances of chamber-like sensitivity and remarkable transparency.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Review Tagged: Kirill Gerstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Myrios Classics, SFS Media, The Gershwin Moment

Concert Review: Sibelius and Busoni at Symphony Hall

In the Piano Concerto, Ferruccio Busoni seemed to want to have the final word in the tradition of the Romantic concerto.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ferruccio Busoni, Kirill Gerstein, Sakari Oramo, Tanglewood Festival Chorus

CD Reviews: Lara Downes’ “America Again,” Gerstein’s Liszt, and Melnikov plays Prokofiev

Lara Downes’ America Again is a great album, and one with multiple layers of meaning.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alexander Melnikov, America Again, Kirill Gerstein, Lara Downes, Transcendental Etudes

Classical Music Review/Commentary: BSO / Pianist Kirill Gerstein – Whose America?

The BSO’s Americana concert could only provide four beautiful snapshots of a very complicated landscape.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, George Gershwin, Jacques Lacombe, John Harbison, Kirill Gerstein, Piano Concerto in F, Rhapsody in Blue, Tanglewood

Concert Review: Kirill Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adés

With “In Seven Days,” Thomas Adés seems to have developed a musical language that’s complex yet not forbidding: there’s no sense that his music is weighed down by expectations of the past, even as he freely refers to archaic compositional forms.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: In Seven Days, Kirill Gerstein, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Ades

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