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Found a link to this on his site.
Though I guess Liverpudlians would disagree because they get to keep him. Maybe not him because the BPO didn't want to return to the nest for the next fledgling.
He's been conducting orchestras (mostly opera) in Germany for 20 years and is well known in Berlin where he is currently the music director of the Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin.
I have two recordings conducted by him with his current orchestra. They are recordings of the Asrael Symphony and various other orchestral music by Josef Suk.
I'm looking forward to his tenure at the Berlin Philharmonic. Not only because I'm not much of a Simon Rattle fan, but also because Petrenko might actually let the orchestra expand their repertoire and play/record more music by unjustly forgotten/neglected composers like Suk.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
About the only person who would not be an improvement over Sir Simon would be Marin Alsop!
"About the only person who would not be an improvement over Sir Simon would be Marin Alsop!"
I'd toss Franz Welser Most and Daniel Barenboim in there as well......
Such a pity that the Soprano in the Verdi goes a touch flat at the end of Libera Me.
Marin Alsop's work with Shostakovich have had moatly excellent reviews.... (I thought her performance of the "Leningrad" Symphony was decent, but not great. Not familiar with her other Shosty work to give an opinion. Seems to be Alsop's "go-to" composer.) I thought Welser Most did a good Schumann Three with the LPO....... His Bruckner Nine with Cleveland (performed in Vienna) was also nice.
I'll agree with the first. I'm a fan of the second.
I can think of some others who are equally unappealing, at least to me. But I'm hoping Petrenko can breathe some life in to that moribund band.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
I think Berlin held up rather well under Rattle.... In spite of me not being a fan of the conductor..... Kind of like how Cleveland held up under Lorin Maazel.
Who indeed?
It's moments like this where we can appreciate the way BPO picks its leaders.
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Reminds me of when I first heard Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel" with Cleveland, back in 1984..... It was absolutely electric.....
Unfortunately, things went downhill after that. But not implying that will happen with Berlin's new director.
Still one of my favorite Beethoven cycles.
Of the Cleveland music directors from Szell to today, I thought Dohnanyi's Beethoven cycle was easily the best of the bunch.
Dohnanyi's Beethoven cycle was done relatively early in his Cleveland tenure..... So it mostly had that great "Cleveland sound".
The only recording I have (actually, half an album!) that features Kirill Petrenko conducting is this Jared Sacks production on a Channel Classics SACD:
When I talked to Jared about it, he was a bit apologetic that it was an in-concert performance (as opposed to the studio conditions he usually records under), with the "live" environment compromising what he could achieve as an engineer, compared with his best work (e.g., with the Budapest Festival Orchestra). I told him that it still sounded great to me (despite the live conditions) and that I found it interpretively compelling (from both Lazic and Petrenko).
That's all I know about Petrenko! ;-)
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