Vasily Petrenko reviews

Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau etc

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx)
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Myaskovsky • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, etc

Oslo Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Lawo Classics)
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Rossini • Stravinski: Petrushka, etc

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx Classics)
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, etc

Oslo Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Lawo)
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Elgar: Sea Pictures; The Music Makers

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano); RLPO/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx)
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Wolf-Ferrari: I quattro rusteghi

Silvia Beltrami, Aleksandar Stefanoski, Daniela Degennaro, Mihnea Lamatic, Tansel Akzeybek, Mirko Quarello, Giulio Pelligra, Romina Casucci, Agnieszka Hauzer, Ana James; European Opera Centre, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (Rubicon)
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R Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (Lawo Classics)
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d’Or Suite; Stravinsky: The Firebird

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx)
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 1; Prometheus: The Poem of Fire

Alisa Kolosova, Alexey Dolgov, Kirill Gerstein; Oslo Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (LAWO)
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Musorgsky • Shchedrin, et al: Orchestral Works

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx)
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R Strauss: Don Quixote; Don Juan, etc

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko, et al (Lawo Classics)
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Vasily Petrenko gives voice to Strauss’s tone poems

'Don Quixote emerges as one of the richest orchestral scores ever composed, the ultimate opera for orchestra'
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Vasily Petrenko conducts a celebration of Spring

Spring is the theme of three relatively youthful works. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring provides the substantive, cathartic climax, but Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) preface it with two lesser known pieces by Rachmaninov and Debussy. Petrenko is a convincing advocate for the latter’s Printemps, an attractive work that, despite several moments that are prophetic of the composer’s mature style, struggles to establish its distinctiveness.

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Vasily Petrenko is the 'ideal interpreter' of Scriabin's Symphony No. 2

In many respects, Vasily Petrenko is the ideal interpreter for this ripe overheated music with its strong echoes of Liszt, Wagner and Tchaikovsky. He knows instinctively how to sustain momentum, particularly in the Second Symphony’s more repetitive sequential passages. He also ensures that Scriabin’s propensity for unleashing constant surges in sound in the faster-paced movements does not become self-defeating, and that the biggest climaxes of all really have the greatest impact. 

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Vasily Petrenko conducts animal-themed music by Prokofiev and Saint-Saëns

It’s a measure of Peter and the Wolf’s brilliance that no amount of theatrical histrionics or ‘fashion’ can spoil a score of such spare, enchanted perfection. Its economy of means – both in words and music – give it a mirror-like quality, reflecting the changing ethos of the times.

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