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Social turmoil and a personal meditation: Kirill Gerstein at Wigmore Hall

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“it was in these explicitly personal works... that Gerstein’s heroic impulses shone most brightly”
Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 24 February 2019
Liszt, Transcendental Études, S 139: no. 7 Eroica
Beethoven, 15 Variations and fugue for piano in E flat major "Eroica Variations", Op.35
Janáček, Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905 "From the Street"
Liszt, Harmonies poétiques et religieuses: Funérailles, S 173 no. 7
Adès, The Exterminating Angel: Berceuse
Debussy, Élégie
Debussy, Les Soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon
Vardapet, 2 Armenian Dances
Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Kirill Gerstein, Piano
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Early 20th-century Russian landmarks at Tanglewood
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