Vasily Petrenko

Conductor

Vasily Petrenko is the Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Between 1994 and 1997, Petrenko was Resident Conductor at the St Petersburg State Opera and Ballet Theatre in the Mussorgsky Memorial Theatre. During this time he gained an enormous amount of operatic experience and he now has over 30 operas in his repertoire.

Petrenko is equally at home in symphonic and operatic repertoire. On the symphonic front, he has previously worked with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Swedish Radio, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and NDR Hanover, BBC Wales, Cadaques and Castille y Leon Orchestras in Spain.

In the 2007/08 season, he makes his debut performance with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducts the National Youth Orchestra and returns to the Rotterdam Philharmonic. In the 2008/09 season, he conducts a BBC Prom with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra and debuts with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Budapest Festival Orchestras. After making a highly successful US debut last season in Milwaukee and Indianapolis, he has consequently been invited to Dallas, Baltimore, Cincinatti, Milwaukee and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras.

Operatically, he has worked in recent seasons with the Reisopera in The Netherlands on three productions (Le Villi together with Messa da Gloria, I due Foscari and Boris Godounov) and will be conducting the Opera de Bastille in the 2010/11 season conducting Eugene Onegin.

Petrenko was Chief Conductor of the State Academy Orchestra of St Petersburg from 1994 to 2007. He commenced his position as Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in September 2006 and six months into his first season this contract was extended till 2012.

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Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony

Tchaikovsky:

Manfred Symphony, Op. 58

The Voyevoda, symphonic ballad Op. 78

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

Written between the fourth and fifth symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s programmatic Manfred Symphony, inspired by Byron’s dramatic poem of the same name, contains some of the composer’s most thrillingly orchestrated music and best tunes. For Tchaikovsky, as for Byron, Manfred represented the figure of the outsider, an outcast from society.

Petrenko’s Liverpool debut with the Phil in November 2004, and subsequent appearances in October and December 2005, created huge excitement: “…memorable for the sheer electricity emanating from the podium. Instantly there was a sense of dialogue between conductor and musicians, between one orchestral family and another, between one phrase and the next, to release natural-seeming eloquence from his players.” The Daily Telegraph

"[Vasily Petrenko] seems to have everything going for him: dynamism, taste, confident command and clarity of communication….What an exciting conductor he is to watch, and, even more so, to hear in action.” The Daily Telegraph

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Liszt - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Liszt:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125

Totentanz, S126 for piano & orchestra

Eldar Nebolsin (piano)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

Franz Liszt’s two piano concertos amply display both his extraordinary pianistic ability and his originality as an influential Romantic composer. The first is a path-breaking tour de force whose four movements, played without break and thematically linked, moved Bartók to acclaim it as “the first perfect realisation of cyclic sonata form”. The second is equally brilliant but more integrated.

The Totentanz (Dance of Death), perhaps inspired by an Italian fresco, is a powerful series of variations on the Medieval Dies irae chant.

In 2005 Nebolsin won the First Richter International Piano Competition in Moscow and was awarded a special prize for the best performance of a Mozart piano concerto.

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Tchaikovsky:

The Nutcracker Ballet, Op. 71 (Excerpts)

Swan Lake (excerpts)

Sleeping Beauty (excerpts)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

“These bonbons from the Tchaikovsky ballets…clearly demonstrate the difference Petrenko is already making to the quality of the RLPO playing. Petrenko's watchwords are shape and purpose and clarity; there is an elegance and inner life to the playing making everything sound freshly minted. The Swan lake highlights wipe the floor with Gergiev's pale showing in the complete ballet the nobility of the horns emblazoned across the opening Scene, the swagger and sophistication of the national dances... and a delightfully folksy lilt to the contrasting Trio of the Mazurka.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008

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