"Pianist and orchestra pounce on [Prokofiev's] pungent rhythms like hungry lions and stir burning energy and rage"

“The textures [in the Tchaikovsky] are lighter and sprinkled with arpeggios…Pomp has gone; the mood is poetic, as though we had dipped into Schumann’s piano concerto by mistake…Pianist and orchestra pounce on the [Prokofiev’s] pungent rhythms like hungry lions and stir burning energy and rage. This is Gerstein’s first concerto album and it’s definitely one you notice.”

— The Times (UK), print issue.

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