Interview
Kirill Petrenko in conversation with Matthew Hunter Kirill Petrenko conducts Zimmermann, Lutosławski and Brahms
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.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko
© 2022 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
Related interviews
Artists
Our recommendations
- Kirill Petrenko conducts Dallapiccola’s “The Prisoner”
- Kirill Petrenko conducts Scriabin, Stravinsky and Stephan
- Inaugural concert: Kirill Petrenko conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
- 2022 New Year’s Eve Concert with Kirill Petrenko and Jonas Kaufmann
- Season opening 2022: Kirill Petrenko conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
- Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky and two world premieres