Liszt - Transcendental Etudes
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Label: Myrios
Cat No: MYR019
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 15th July 2016
Contents
Artists
Kirill Gerstein (piano)About
The multi-faceted pianist Kirill Gerstein has rapidly ascended into classical music’s highest ranks. With a masterful technique, discerning intelligence, and a musical curiosity that has led him to explore repertoire spanning centuries and styles, he has proven to be one of today’s most intriguing and versatile musicians. His early training and experience in jazz has contributed an important element to his interpretive style, inspiring an energetic and expressive musical personality that distinguishes his playing.
Last year, Myrios Classics released Kirill Gerstein’s world première recording of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto in the composer’s own final 1879 version newly published as Urtext by the Tchaikovsky archive in Russia. The recording won an ECHO Klassik award and was nominated for a BBC Music Magazine award.
Reviews
From the opening ‘Preludio’ (played as a proper introduction, not as a macho wham-bang fest) and exacting demands of No 2 … , we gather that Gerstein is no mere showman but a storyteller who, even at the height of Liszt’s ferocious challenges, lets the music breathe, controlling its ebb and flow with enormous skill. … Overall, it’s a terrific achievement. Jeremy Nicholas
The particular interest here is Kirill Gerstein’s decision to perform [Liszt’s Etudes d’exécution transcendante] complete, and the questions about interpretation – notably speed, dynamics – that result. Born in the Soviet Union in 1979 and musically prodigious from the start, Gerstein had an early encounter with jazz before deciding, aged 16, to becoming a classical pianist. Perhaps that knowledge of improvisation, together with a sharp, analytical approach, gives his playing its distinctive freedom, risk and excitement. Fiona Maddocks
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