麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2024-25 Barbican Season Gerstein plays Busoni鈥檚 Piano Concerto
Gerstein plays Busoni鈥檚 Piano Concerto
19:30
Fri 1 Nov 2024
Barbican, London
Expect epic visions and piano playing that鈥檚 out of this world when Kirill Gerstein and Sakari Oramo champion Ferruccio Busoni鈥檚 stupendous Piano Concerto, as well as music by Grazyna Bacewicz.
Expect epic visions and piano playing that鈥檚 out of this world when Kirill Gerstein and Sakari Oramo champion Ferruccio Busoni鈥檚 stupendous Piano Concerto, as well as music by Grazyna Bacewicz.
鈥淛oy and pain interweave in the light of the world鈥housands of years flash by with glory and strength, revealing that which is indestructible鈥�. Extraordinary claims; but then extraordinary is the only word for the heaven-storming choral finale of Ferruccio Busoni鈥檚 colossal Piano Concerto: a masterpiece on the scale of a symphony, composed in 1904 by one of Mahler鈥檚 greatest fans.
Every performance is a major occasion, demanding a pianist with outsize charisma and fingers of steel. Kirill Gerstein has both 鈥� and when he recorded this concerto with Sakari Oramo, Gramophone described the results as 鈥渟ublime鈥�. Oramo and the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra open with the supercharged Second Symphony by Grazyna Bacewicz: the dazzling, neglected Polish composer whose music he鈥檚 determined to bring into the daylight.
