Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra: Mozart / Strauss / AlfvénDaniel Harding (conductor), Kirill Gerstein (piano)
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Pianist Kirill Gerstein’s playing is characterised by an outstanding technique and distinctive intelligence, coupled with an energetic, imaginative musical presence that puts him at the forefront of the international scene. He will be accompanied by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its chief conductor Daniel Harding. In addition to Mozart, Harding will perform Richard Strauss’ tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra and Hugo Alfvén’s symphonic poem En skärgårdssägen.
This event is in the past.
Pianist Kirill Gerstein’s playing is characterised by an outstanding technique and distinctive intelligence, coupled with an energetic, imaginative musical presence that puts him at the forefront of the international scene. He will be accompanied by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its chief conductor Daniel Harding. In addition to Mozart, Harding will perform Richard Strauss’ tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra and Hugo Alfvén’s symphonic poem En skärgårdssägen.
Unfortunately, Maria João Pires had to cancel her performance at the Isarphilharmonie due to illness. Kirill Gerstein will take her place as soloist with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Please note the change in this evening’s programme.
Solo and concert engagements have taken Kirill Gerstein from Europe to the United States, East Asia and Australia. Born in the former Soviet Union, Gerstein is an American citizen and lives in Berlin. His legacy combines the traditions of Russian, American and Central European music-making with an insatiable curiosity. These qualities and the relationships he has built up with orchestras, conductors, instrumentalists, singers and composers have led him to explore a wide range of repertoire both old and new.
This season, Kirill Gerstein is playing four concerts at the Barbican Centre and will be touring as a spotlight artist with the London Symphony Orchestra. He is also revisiting orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with Andris Nelsons, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Robin Ticciati, the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Lahav Shani, the Boston Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Thomas Adès. In recent years, he has premiered two new piano concertos written especially for him, by the British composer Thomas Adès and by the Austrian composer Thomas Larcher. His passion for teaching sees him as a professor of piano at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin and as a lecturer at the Kronberg Academy. He has been awarded first prize at the tenth Arthur Rubinstein Competition and is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In 2021, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Manhattan School of Music.
Kirill Gerstein will be accompanied by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its chief conductor Daniel Harding. In addition to Mozart, Harding will perform Richard Strauss’ tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra and Hugo Alfvén’s symphonic poem En skärgårdssägen. Premiered in 1896, the work, with its iconic opening, is based on a text by Friedrich Nietzsche, the immediate linguistic musicality of which all but demanded being set in music.
Programme
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467
Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K 466 - Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30
- Hugo Alfvén: Symphonic poem, En skärgårdssägen, Op 20
