| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 31-Jan-2013 Oslo Concert Hall (Konserthus) | Truls Mørk, Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic play Shostakovich and Bruckner |
 Sometimes an eagerly awaited performance starts out brilliantly, more or less how you thought it would, but then it kind of fizzles out towards the middle, only to return with a vengeance at the end. This was more or less the case with Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic this Thursday.
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| 28-Nov-2012 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Vasily Petrenko conducts the OSM in Barber and Shostakovich |
 My return to La Maison Symphonique in Montreal on Wednesday was a bag full of surprises. The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal opened with a work I didn’t even know was on the programme; the accompanying orchestra put in a stronger showing than the soloist in the concerto; and a difficult symphony was done so well it practically jumped at the audience.
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| 23-Nov-2012 Walt Disney Concert Hall | Hope and defiance in Petrenko's Shostakovich 10 with the LA Phil |
 Can Shostakovich without bitterness still be Shostakovich? Can a performer still do justice to his music if their interpretation does not match the style and tone of Soviet-era musicians?Read full review... | |
| 23-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 54: Vasily Petrenko, Tasmin Little and the Liverpool Philharmonic |
 I can’t work out if it was surprising or to be expected that Maxwell Davies, part of the New Music Manchester group that included Birtwistle and Goehr, should have become Master of the Queen’s Music. The earlier output of all of these composers now dates in its avant-garde leanings but this extraordinarily talented group of composers have all matured to become rather different to each other and their younger selves. Symphony no.Read full review... | |
