Mon 3 Aug 2026

• 19:00

  Rachmaninov’s ‘Paganini’ Variations

  Royal Albert Hall

  Kirill Gerstein is soloist in Rachmaninov’s glittering Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. He joins Thomas Søndergård and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, who also perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and Knussen’s Flourish with Fireworks

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  Kirill Gerstein is soloist in Rachmaninov’s glittering Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. He joins Thomas Søndergård and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, who also perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and Knussen’s Flourish with Fireworks

  Programme

  • • • Oliver Knussen
      • Flourish with Fireworks(4 mins)
    • • Sergey Rachmaninov
      • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini(22 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Dmitry Shostakovich
      • Symphony No. 11 in G minor, ‘The Year 1905’(55 mins)

  Performers

  • Kirill Gerstein

    piano
    piano
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra
  • Thomas Søndergård

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Oliver Knussen
  • Sergey Rachmaninov
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

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