Interview
Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Krzysztof Polonek
Kirill Petrenko conducts Mendelssohn and Shostakovich
In this programme, Kirill Petrenko first takes us to Great Britain. Inspired by a visit to Scotland, Mendelssohn composed his atmospherically dense Third Symphony. Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony – the first he wrote after Stalin’s death in 1953 – is programmatically very different. The composer makes the repression of the Stalin era palpable with oppressive, often grotesque music, before closing with a movement full of hope.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko
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