Kirill Petrenko
The week in classical: Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko; Partenope at the Lucerne festival
Mesmerising Schubert and sparkling Handel were highlights at this year’s ‘crazy’ Swiss festival
Fiona Maddocks
11, Sep, 2021 @11:30 AM
Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
This mammoth undertaking, of all of Mahler’s symphonies with different conductors over the last decade, brings variable musical results
Andrew Clements
18, Feb, 2021 @5:00 PM
Sound recovery: how live music is returning to Munich
Led, masked and alone, to an underground lair below the Bavarian State Opera house, our writer joined a tiny handful of others for a thrilling chamber concert. Now the company is reclaiming its stage
AJ Goldmann
22, Jun, 2020 @9:30 AM
The week in classical: Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko review – thrillingly eruptive
The city turned out in force to welcome the self-effacing Kirill Petrenko to the world’s top conducting job
Fiona Maddocks
31, Aug, 2019 @11:00 AM
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 review | Andrew Clements' classical album of the week
Kirill Petrenko’s first recording with his new orchestra has plenty to admire but taken as a whole feels rather underpowered
Andrew Clements
16, May, 2019 @2:00 PM
The week in classical: Proms 66 & 68; Paul Bunyan review – Berlin passes the baton
The enigmatic Kirill Petrenko makes a dazzling Proms debut with the Berlin Phil, while ENO takes Britten to the music hall
Fiona Maddocks
08, Sep, 2018 @2:00 PM
Proms 66 & 68: Berlin Philharmonic/Petrenko review –superlative music making
Two Proms with its chief conductor saw the Berlin Phil playing with total assurance and ravishing refinement
Andrew Clements
03, Sep, 2018 @1:50 PM
Bavarian State Orchestra / Petrenko review – Rattle's heir thrills with wild intensity
Kirill Petrenko’s rapport with the awesome Bavarian players delivered a truly dazzling Mahler Seventh, and underlined why his move to Berlin is hotly anticipated
Martin Kettle
03, Jun, 2018 @12:19 PM
Proms 2018: it ticks all the boxes but where's the radical and the recherché?
Debussy, Bernstein, Boulanger and Parry’s anniversaries are duly marked, and female composers are well represented as are international orchestras, but there’s too little risk in this year’s lineup
Andrew Clements
19, Apr, 2018 @10:54 AM
In choosing Petrenko, the Berlin players are putting the music first
His symphonic repertoire is small, and his media experience even smaller, but Kirill Petrenko is a bold and an inspired choice for music director of the Berlin Philharmonic
Tom Service, Martin Kettle
22, Jun, 2015 @3:39 PM
Kirill Petrenko to succeed Simon Rattle at the Berlin Philharmonic
The conductor was appointed to one of classical music’s top jobs after the orchestra voted by a large majority for the Russian-born musician
Ben Knight in Berlin
22, Jun, 2015 @10:51 AM
The Bayreuth Wagner festival: more soap opera than classical opera
Allegations that joint director Eva Wagner-Pasquier is not allowed even near the festival theatre are the latest twists in a long saga of offstage feuds at Bayreuth
Tom Service
11, Jun, 2015 @8:49 AM
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