Bittersüßer Liszt und Brahms mit Kirill Gerstein in Berlin

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 02 March 2026

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Reviewed at Philharmonie: Kammermusiksaal, Berlin on 25 February 2026

Liszt, Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S 270

Liszt, Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année, Italie: Après une lecture du Dante. Fantasia quasi sonata, S.161 no.7

Brahms, Scherzo in E flat minor for Piano, Op.4

Brahms, Piano Sonata no. 3 in F minor, Op.5

Kirill Gerstein, Piano

High-caliber Schumann and Mahler at Dvořák’s Prague

Frank Kuznik, 14th September

Daniele Gatti and Kirill Gerstein offer fresh, invigorating takes on two warhorses with the Staatskapelle Dresden.

*****

Gerstein's electricity impresses at the Hollywood Bowl

Néstor Castiglione, 8th July

Thomas Søndergård, great and not so great, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in their first Hollywood Bowl concert of the summer.

***11

Ancient Greece and reimagined Tchaikovsky at the Pittsburgh Symphony

Sam Jacobson, 11th April

Daniele Rustioni leads the Pittsburgh Symphony in music inspired by Ancient Greece, flanking Kirill Gerstein’s take on Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto that restores the composer’s original intentions.

****1

Music of the Spheres: stars align for Thomas Adès’ TSO debut

Michelle Assay, 26th February

Thomas Adès serves up an astronomical programme, pairing his Piano Concerto and Paradiso with Holst’s crowd favourite, The Planets.

****1

A dynamic debut in Prague by Alan Gilbert

Frank Kuznik, 19th December

With an assist from soloist Kirill Gerstein, Alan Gilbert holds the audience rapt in his inaugural appearance with the Czech Philharmonic.

****1

Early 20th-century Russian landmarks at Tanglewood

Edward Sava-Segal, 9th August

Blurring boundaries: Romanticism and Modernism in Kirill Gerstein and Alan Gilbert’s Boston Symphony performances at Tanglewood.

***11

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Sebastian Urmoneit

Sebastian Urmoneit sudierte Musikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Berlin (u. a. bei Carl Dahlhaus). Ergänzendes Studium an der HdK Berlin (UdK)(u. a. bei Heinrich Poos und Hartmut Fladt), Dissertation zu Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“; Aufsätze über Schubert, Wagner, Wolf, Strauss und Brahms; Herausgabe: Joseph Haydn, Memoria, Band 11 mit Hartmut Fladt. Werkeinführungen für das Berliner Konzerthaus, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, die Bamberger Symphoniker, die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, die Südwestdeutsche Konzertdirektion Erwin Russ GmbH, die Dachauer Schlosskonzerte, die Albert Konzerte GmbH in Freiburg u. a.

Bittersüßer Liszt und Brahms mit Kirill Gerstein in der Berliner Philharmonie