Kirill Gerstein plays Debussy and Liszt
Live at Wigmore Hall, Kirill Gerstein plays two of the most demanding works in the solo piano repertoire: Debussy's late, great 脡tudes and Liszt's ground-breaking B minor Sonata.
Internationally renowned Kirill Gerstein plays an exciting programme requiring a transcendent technique. From 1915, Debussy's 12 脡tudes are widely considered his late masterpiece. At once playful and unrelenting in their technical demands the Studies are musically richly rewarding, too, each a mini tone-poem with endlessly varied textures. Debussy wrote, impishly gnomic, to his publisher 鈥楾hese 脡tudes conceal a rigorous technique beneath flowers of harmony. To put it another way, 鈥測ou don鈥檛 catch flies with vinegar!鈥�'
Although Liszt's groundbreaking B minor Sonata was declared musically incomprehensible and technically impossible at its premiere, it has long been accepted as his greatest solo piano work, a conerstone of the repertoire and a satisfying emotional and musical journey which unfolds in one vast, irresistible and inevitable movement.
Introduced by Martin Handley, live from Wigmore Hall.
Debussy: 脡tudes
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor S178
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Followed by music off disc, including, at 9:05pm:
Max Bruch
Symphony No 3 in E major, Op 51
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Robert Trevino
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Claude Debussy
Etudes Book 1 and Book 2
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Franz Liszt
Sonata in B minor
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Max Bruch
Symphony No 3 in E major, Op 51
Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Trevi帽o.- CPO.
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Max Bruch
15 Swedish dances Op.63 (Set 1)
Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.- PHILIPS.
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Max Bruch
Romance for viola and orchestra Op.85
Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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- Fri 2 Oct 2020 19:30蜜芽传媒 Radio 3