Kirill Petrenko conducts Zimmermann, Lutosławski and Brahms

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Kirill Petrenko conducts Zimmermann, Lutosławski and Brahms

Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko

  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann
    Photoptosis, Prélude for large orchestra

  • Witold Lutosławski
    Symphony No.1

  • Johannes Brahms
    Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73

Anyone who wants to continue the symphonic tradition must have self-confidence and creativity. In this concert, Kirill Petrenko presents two composers who took this risk: we hear Witold Lutosławski’s splendidly virtuosic Symphony No. 1 and the Janus-faced Second Symphony by Johannes Brahms, which the composer himself described as a “lovely monster”. The concert opens with Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s sound surface composition Photoptosis.

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