Conductor Kirill Petrenko emerged as something of a dark horse to become conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, and this live performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ("Pathétique"), suggests why. It is a testimony to the art of musicians and their conductor, shaped in entirely original ways, who demands and gets precise responses from the players. Petrenko's performance makes an interesting pairing with the intense one from the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, also released in 2019: where ...
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Conductor Kirill Petrenko emerged as something of a dark horse to become conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, and this live performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ("Pathétique"), suggests why. It is a testimony to the art of musicians and their conductor, shaped in entirely original ways, who demands and gets precise responses from the players. Petrenko's performance makes an interesting pairing with the intense one from the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, also released in 2019: where Gergiev's reading of the work is emotionally raw and even seems to depict a personality in the process of fragmentation, Petrenko is delicate and detailed. His opening movement holds the music's many rhythmic strands together and reveals many interior lines. In his Allegro con grazia, the emphasis is on the grazia ; the movement loses some of its dancelike character in favor of subtlety and a floating feeling. The third movement, Allegro molto vivace, might not make audiences stand...
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