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Gerstein Premiere's Adès's Piano Concerto

Kirill Gerstein
Marco Borggreve
Kirill Gerstein

April 16, 2020
8:00 PM

In a 2019 concert at Symphony Hall, Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in the world premiere of the Piano Concerto by BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès, a program Adès conducts that also includes Liszt's First "Mephisto Waltz" and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.

Encore broadcast from March 9, 2019

Thomas Adès, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano

LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Thomas ADÈS Piano Concerto
   (world premiere; BSO commission)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

In a conversation with WCRB's Brian McCreath, Kirill Gerstein previews Thomas Adès's Piano Concerto and talks about his new recording, with the BSO, of Ferruccio Busoni's Piano Concerto:

Learn more about Gerstein's new recording of Busoni's Piano Concerto