Kirill Petrenko To Become New Chief Conductor in Berlin

[James Meckley]

The musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic have just named Kirill Petrenko their new chief conductor, to succeed Sir Simon Rattle. Anyone ever hear of Kirill Petrenko? Archive Music lists only five recordings, he's conducted the BPO only three times, and he does not give interviews. Currently music director of the Bavarian State Opera, he should not be confused with Vasily Petrenko, who has recorded extensively.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/berlin-philharmonic-names-kirill-petrenko-chief-conductor-31936583

James

[waderice]

Much about him is TBD.  I just did listen to a sound clip of him at the Facebook Mahler Forum of the Funeral March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung at Bayreuth in 2013, and what I heard sounded pretty good.

Wade

[Prospero]

He received rave reviews for his conducting of Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina’ at the Metropolitan Opera in 2012. A seasoned Met regular told me it was the best opera performance that season.

Tom in Vermont

[barry guerrero]

Is it just me, or does this whole chapter seem sort of bizarre and surrealistic?

"Envelope, please  .     .     .     and now, the winner of our conductor search is  .    .    Kirill Petrenko!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1_rEJoBYIs

.   .   .    just the timpani roll is missing. Now this looks fun   .    .    .    (with Petrenko)  .   .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bxfajTPJbA

.    .     .   yet another opportunity for Barbara Hannigan to get undressed.

[Steele]

2004 M4 with Komische Oper in Berlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=29&v=vpfI4HQlvGo

[barry guerrero]

Not bad - who needs the Berlin Phil.!  Too bad the end of the first movement got cut off.

The soprano is a tad heavy voiced for the role (I'm reminded just a tad of Edith Mathis or Margaret Price), but I really like the tempos in the finale. In fact, I pretty much like them everywhere.

It's funny that it's posted by Misha Horenstein because Petrenko's 'contrasty' performance is so different from Jascha's 'one size fits all' approach to tempi and tempo relationships.

[Steele]

 Should anyone want a lossless version without the nasty first movement edit, it is available to download from Alexandros Rigas,
who generously provided the audio source that was posted on youtube, with the following instructions.  Cheers, Steele

You can download the uncompressed (flac) complete concert as originally captured from my dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f0ov3p3zlt9kdkv/AADHIXoNv_yTXDW6Zgj7uuf7a?dl=0

Komische Oper Berlin
Aufzeichnung vom 5.11.04
1. Rodion Schtschedrin »Alte russische Zirkusmusik«
2. Luciano Berio »Folk-Songs« fόr Stimme und Orchester
3. Gustav Mahler Sinfonie Nr. 4 G-dur
Brigitte Geller, Sopran
Caren von Oijen, Mezzosopran
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
Leitung: Kirill Petrenko
DVB-S
Deutschlandradio Kultur, 18 Nov 2004

Enjoy,
Alex