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
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