Perception-altering Shostakovich from Serebrennikov and Petrenko

Kirill Serebrennikov's installation for Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony

Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Serebrennikov's installation for Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony

Par Mark Pullinger, 27 avril 2025

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“Serebrennikov uses video to enhance what we hear rather than to depict the music itself”

Critique faite à Royal Festival Hall, Londres, le 27 avril 2025

Sibelius, Finlandia, poème symphonique pour orchestre, Op.26

Weill, Four Walt Whitman Songs

Chostakovitch, Symphonie no. 7 en ut majeur, « Leningrad » Op.60

Kirill Serebrennikov, Art Director

Ilya Shagalov, Vidéaste

Roderick Williams, Baryton

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko, Direction

Dutoit met Ravel et Montreux en extase !

Thomas Muller, 26th August

Dutoit a embarqué le Royal Philarmonic de Londres dans un délice de musiques ravéliennes portées aux nues. On se souviendra longtemps de cette belle soirée à Montreux qui, envoûtée par des musiques si solaires, se transforma, le temps d’un concert, en sublime rivage méditerranéen.

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Le Sacre de Stravinsky révélé par Charles Dutoit tellurique à Montreux !

Thomas Muller, 28th August

Outre un Royal Philarmonic Orchestra London pléthorique, on aura retenu les délices pianistiques d’un Daniil Trifonov superlatif, et surtout un Chrales Dutoit qui nous livre Un Sacre du Printemps magistral d’énergie primale et de musicalité : des concerts qui vous revigorent pour longtemps !

*****

Brillances pianistiques et orchestrales à l’Auditorium de Lyon

Beate Langenbruch, 20th October

Charles Dutoit et le Royal Philharmonic Orchestra de Londres entourent Khatia Buniatishvili de toute leur attention.

****1

Le Bach Choir et le RPO en manque d'inspiration

Julie Jozwiak, 7th June

Dimanche 7 juin 2015, le Royal Philharmonic Orchestra et le Bach Choir donnaient l'oratorio Elias de Mendelssohn au Royal Festival Hall, sous la direction de David Hill. Une grosse déception : pas d’émotion et pas de sens du sacré.

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Korngold and Mahler from Ray Chen, Vasily Petrenko and the RPO

Roy Westbrook, 12th May

Few violin concertos soar from the first bar as Erich Korngold’s does, especially as in Ray Chen's high-wire account at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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