Peter and the Wolf (Warner Classics), featuring Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with narration by Alexander Armstrong, has reached number one on the UK’s Official Specialist Chart. Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936) is a...
Vasily Petrenko’s latest recording with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Onyx), is available to purchase today. “Three works inspired by Spring – Stravinsky’s iconic and revolutionary 1913 ballet The Rite of...
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra performed two extremely contrasting symphonies at Sage Gateshead – Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony and new Philip Glass’s Eleventh Symphony under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. Despite this fundamental difference, endlessly...
Vasily Petrenko undertakes a major tour of China with London Philharmonic Orchestra, bringing Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel to life at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and explores rich repertoire with leading orchestras in Montreal (Montreal Symphony Orchestra),...
Vasily Petrenko won the prestigious Artist Of The Year award at last night’s Gramophone Classical Music Awards. Petrenko, who previously won the Young Artist Of The Year award in 2007, has enjoyed a stellar year in which his recordings of Tchaikovsky’s...
Vasily’s most recent recordings from his Tchaikovsky symphony cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonies 3, 4 & 6, have won Gramophone’s Recording of The Month for February. This follows from the success of Symphonies 1, 2 &...