Jess Gillam with Vasily Petrenko
Vasily Petrenko joined saxophonist and presenter Jess Gillam on BBC Radio 3’s This Classical Life. On 30 May, he joins Jess to share some of his favourite music, giving a conductor’s insight into the big works of Shostakovich and Beethoven, and revealing more eclectic tastes with tracks by Björk and Pink Floyd. Jess, meanwhile, plays Vasily some Vivaldi and Duke Ellington, and music for saxophone and orchestra by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.
Vasily Petrenko made his debut this month with the legendary Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, leading them in the pit of the Dutch National Opera for a widely acclaimed new production by Kirill Serebrennikov of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, in performances that marked the...
The Arts Desk’s Graham Rickson has praised the “luxuriant” form of Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic on Prokofiev & Shor, the new album with pianist Behzod Abduraimov available on Alpha Classics. He writes, “Petrenko understands the first movement’s debt...
Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gave a “blistering, multi-hued” performance of Shostakovich’s epic 7th Symphony in C Major, Op. 6 “Leningrad” at London’s Southbank Centre’s Multitudes Festival. The symphony was illustrated with imagery by Russian...