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For Kirill Petrenko, the Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker is a matter close to his heart. In regular concerts, he passes on his passion, experience, and musical approach to the orchestra’s young talents. Now, Petrenko is working with the Akademie on Schubert’s Fourth Symphony, a piece by the then 19-year-old composer that brims with urgent drama and lyrical moments. The programme also features chamber music: Debussy’s only string quartet, Ibert’s lively and witty Trois Pièces brèves, and Ravel’s sensuous Introduction et Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet.
Artists
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Programme
Claude Debussy
String Quartet in G minor
Jacques Ibert
Trois Pièces brèves for wind quintet
Maurice Ravel
Introduction et Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
Interval
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417
Additional information
Duration ca. 1 hour and 45 minutes (incl. 20 minutes interval)
Dates and tickets
Chamber Music Hall
17 to 40 €
Introduction
19:15
with Noel Wilde , guests: Levin Petersen and Mitglieder der Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Background
Biography
Kirill Petrenko
Kirill Petrenko has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Berliner Philharmoniker since the 2019/20 season. Born in Omsk in Siberia, he received his training first in his home town and later in Austria. He established his conducting career in opera with positions at the Staatstheater Meiningen and the Komische Oper Berlin. From 2013 to 2020, Kirill Petrenko was general music director of Bayerische Staatsoper. He has also made guest appearances at the world’s leading opera houses, including Wiener Staatsoper, Covent Garden in London, the Opéra national in Paris, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bayreuth Festival.
Moreover, he has conducted the major international symphony orchestras – in Vienna, Munich, Dresden, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Rome, Chicago, Cleveland and Israel. Since his debut in 2006, a variety of programmatic themes have emerged in his work together with the Berliner Philharmoniker. These include work on the orchestra’s core Classical-Romantic repertoire, most notably with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony when he took up his post. Unjustly forgotten composers such as Josef Suk and Bernd Alois Zimmermann are another of Kirill Petrenko’s interests. In opera performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Richard Strauss’ Elektra and Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly have recently attracted attention.
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