Kirill Gerstein: a Mozartian master with the Santa Cecilia

Kirill Gerstein

Leonidas Kavakos conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

By Alissa Balocco, 27 January 2024

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“always of the highest improvisational quality”

Reviewed at Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma: Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome on 25 January 2024

Haas, Study for strings

Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major, K488

Prokofiev, Symphony no. 6 in E flat minor, Op.111

Kirill Gerstein, Piano

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Leonidas Kavakos, Conductor

Yunchan Lim, Daniel Harding and the Santa Cecilia in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 4th December

Daniel Harding and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia choose proportion over spectacle as their Asian tour reaches Seoul.

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Sir Antonio Pappano returns to Santa Cecilia for Mozart and Bruckner

Pia Maltri, 30th October

Now Director Emeritus of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the rarely heard Mass in F minor by Anton Bruckner.

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Lorenzo Viotti conducts the death and rebirth of Spring in music

Alissa Balocco, 8th February

The Swiss conductor returns to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, presenting a triptych of pieces by Schumann, Debussy and Zemlinsky inspired by the season of renewal.

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Bereft blues as the Santa Cecilia and Hrůša play at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 18th May

Lackluster Gershwin undercuts an otherwise impressive outing by Jakub Hrůša and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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Pappano and Levit take the Santa Cecilia on an incredible journey

Alissa Balocco, 2nd November

Levit offers impeccable Beethoven, while Pappano enchants the Rome audience with Cherubini and Sibelius.

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Despair, violence and lyricism from Kantorow in Évian

David Karlin, 3rd July

The French pianist gives a performance of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto to remember; Tugan Sokhiev and an inconsistent Santa Cecilia thrill in Tchaikovsky.

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Alissa Balocco

Born and raised in Rome, Alissa is an Italian pianist, musicologist and journalist. She graduated at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and studied Musicology at University La Sapienza. She is now taking a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Communication at Luiss University and her articles have been published on Music.it, ZetaLuiss and HuffingtonPost. Alissa loves Debussy but, if she could, she would like to be reborn as a Mahler symphony. She can’t live without theatre although her friends would say she obsesses even more about her unconditional love for Amy Winehouse and Soul music.

Kirill Gerstein the master of the cadenza in Mozart with the Santa Cecilia