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Sakari Oramo

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Kirill Gerstein

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Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto

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Symphony No. 2

Piano Concerto BV 247, Op.39

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“Joy 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 “sublime”. Oramo and the BBC 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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Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto by Bacewicz, Busoni, From (2024/2024), Conductor Sakari Oramo, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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