Kirill Gerstein & London Philharmonic Orchestra - Concert For Piano And Orchestra

Pianist Kirill Gerstein and composer/conductor Thomas Adès have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship stretching back over a decade. They have worked together as soloist and conductor, as duet partners, and most recently as composer and dedicatee when the pair premièred Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in March 2019.

The genesis of the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra dates back to 2012 when Gerstein and Adès performed Adès’s first piano concerto In Seven Days with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. During rehearsals for the Boston performance, Adès said he wanted to write a new piano concerto for Gerstein and seven years later, the work was born.