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Kirill Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo performs Bacewicz's Symphony No. 2 and Busoni's colossus of a Piano Concerto with Kirill Gerstein plus the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus.

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo performs Bacewicz's Symphony No. 2 and Busoni's colossus of a Piano Concerto with Kirill Gerstein plus the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus.

GraΕΌyna Bacewicz: Symphony No. 2

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Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto

Kirill Gerstein (piano)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus (lower voices)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

β€œJoy and pain interweave in the light of the world…Thousands of years flash by with glory and strength, revealing that which is indestructible”. Extraordinary claims; but then extraordinary is the only word for the heaven-storming choral finale of Ferruccio Busoni’s colossal Piano Concerto: a masterpiece on the scale of a symphony, composed in 1904 by one of Mahler’s greatest fans.

Every performance is a major occasion, demanding a pianist with outsize charisma and fingers of steel. Kirill Gerstein has both – and when he recorded this concerto with Sakari Oramo, Gramophone described the results as β€œsublime”. Oramo and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra open with the supercharged Second Symphony by Grazyna Bacewicz: the dazzling, neglected Polish composer whose music he’s determined to bring into the daylight.

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Mon 25 Nov 2024 19:30
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Music Played

  • GraΕΌyna Bacewicz

    Symphony No.2

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! BWV 51

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Piano Concerto Op.39

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Augusta HolmΓ¨s

    Andromeda

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Conductor: Michael Francis.
    • Augusta HolmΓ¨s: Symphonic Poems.
    • CPO.
    • 401.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Nov 2024 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3