Gramophone Magazine
September 2021
Editor's Choice

Ferenc Rados, Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Mozart: Sonata for Piano duet in C major, K521
Mozart: Sonata for Piano duet in F major, K497

In a unique collaboration, Kirill Gerstein teams up with his mentor and inspiration, the great Hungarian pianist Ferenc Rados, for an album of four-hand duets by Mozart. An icon for generations of musicians but one who has mostly avoided making recordings, this fascinating disc reveals Rados’s distinctively characterful art at its captivating best and finds both partners in a stimulating musical conversation. The booklet of the album contains an interview with Kirill Gerstein and music historian Joseph Horowitz as well as a personal and very humorous introduction to the fascinating world of Ferenc Rados by the British cellist Steven Isserlis.

"Some of the most refined and cultured music-making you could wish for, everything about it being suffused with warmth and affection." - Gramophone Magazine, September 2021.