Pianist Kirill Gerstein recently released an album called Music in Time of War. The album includes the Etudes Claude Debussy wrote during the First World War and music by composer and musicologist Komitas, who lived through the Armenian Genocide. Fred Child recently spoke with Gerstein about the project and how it reflects on the world. Join us today for a special hour of music and conversation with Kirill Gerstein.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Osvaldo Golijov: Levante
Serouj Kradjian, piano
Album: Levante
Atma 2655
Lennox Berkeley: Divertimento in B-flat Major, Op. 18
Lexington Symphony | Jonathan McPhee, conductor
Lexington Symphony, Cary Memorial Hall, Lexington, MA
Piano Puzzler
Contestant: Rob Scheinberg calling from Hoboken, NJ
Kevin Lau: If Life Were a Mirror
Min-Jeong Koh, violin | Bo Yon Koh, piano
ROCO, Asia Society Building, Houston, TX
Hour 2
Komitas Vardapet: Al Ailux and Tsirani Tsar (two pieces)
Ani Aznavoorian, cello | Marta Aznavoorian, piano
Album: Gems from Armenia
Cedille
Claude Debussy: En Blanc et Noir
Kirill Gerstein, piano | Thomas Ades, piano
Album: Music in Time of War
Myrios
Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Adam Johnson: The Lark Ascending
Jonathan Morton, violin | Edgar Meyer and the Scottish Ensemble
University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA
Komitas Vardapet: Antouni
Ruzan Mantashyan, soprano | Kirill Gerstein, piano
Album: Music in Time of War
Myrios
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