Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Rachmaninoff and Sibelius

Date & Time

Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 20:15

Venue

Het Concertgebouw, Main Hall (Amsterdam)

Pianist Kirill Gerstein can do it all, having already demonstrated as much with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in works by Rachmaninoff – the Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – as well as Liszt, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich and Adès. Now he tackles the Mount Everest of piano concertos – Rachmaninoff’s Third. Rachmaninoff’s characteristic melancholy always culminates in exuberant finales. The Third Piano Concerto is an uncontested high point of his œuvre: it is not only... Read full text

Keywords: Symphony Concert

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Musicians

Concertgebouw Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali	Conductor
Kirill Gerstein	Piano

Program

Clyne	Fractured Time
Sergei Rachmaninoff	Piano Concerto No. 3 in d minor, op. 30
Jean Sibelius	Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, op. 82

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