Name: Music that Demands Perfection – Susanna Mälkki & Kirill Gerstein
Start: 2023-11-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Susanna Mälkki

Instrumentalist

Kirill Gerstein

Piano

London Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Music that Demands Perfection – Susanna Mälkki & Kirill Gerstein

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

Music that Demands Perfection – Susanna Mälkki & Kirill Gerstein: Concerto for Orchestra Benjamin,G (+2 More)

Public

Private

Concerto for Orchestra

Mathis der Maler (symphony)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D Minor op.30

Approved

Music that Demands Perfection – Susanna Mälkki & Kirill Gerstein: Concerto for Orchestra Benjamin (+2 More)

The Programme
The journey to the climactic summit of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3 places unique demands on a performer. But for an audience, the effect is electrifying. This is music in the grand manner: sincere, impressive and emotionally direct. Every instrument is a soloist in George Benjamin’s Concerto for Orchestra, with especially dramatic roles for fervent first violins and unpredictable tuba.

The Performers
Long-time master of its dizzying technical challenges, Kirill Gerstein – a Spotlight Artist with the LSO in 2023/24 – offers a clear, fresh view of the fabulous structure of Rachmaninoff’s masterwork. Susanna Mälkki and the LSO make both new and enduring repertoire feel like a revelation.

‘Probably the only time I could have learned that magnificent knuckle-breaker would have been when I was still too young to know fear’ ~ Pianist Gary Graffman on Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3

English

Music that Demands Perfection – Susanna Mälkki & Kirill Gerstein by Benjamin, Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, From (2023/2023), Conductor Susanna Mälkki, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues