Presto Recording of the Week
21st September 2018

Presto Recordings of the Year
Finalist 2018

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Vasily Petrenko

Scriabin: Symphony No. 1, Op. 26
Scriabin: Symphony No. 5, Op. 60: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire


The lion’s share of the solo work in [the First Symphony] falls to the woodwind, and the principal clarinettist who so impressed James in the orchestra’s recording of the Second Symphony is the star of the show once again in the Tristanesque stretches of the long third movement in particular...The Oslo Philharmonic Choir sing with such conviction that even Scriabin’s slightly toe-curling purple prose about the transcendent nature of art comes across with a certain dignity...Petrenko brings often astonishing clarity to a score which can easily seem overblown." - Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical, 21st September 2018.