Berlin Phil posts Kirill Petrenko ‘interview’

The incoming chief conductor has a well-known aversion to media. He gives no interviews, appears on no TV shows.

For his first season launch, he allowed the Berlin Philharmonic website to carry a so-called interview.

No questions are asked and not much information is volunteered.

Sample: ‘The special feature of the Berliner Philharmoniker is the skill and courage of every single musician, whether solo or tutti, to radiate so much freedom while making music. A freedom that always keeps an eye on the whole structure, a controlled risk in which the great order does not waver, yet which allows a total unleashing at the moment of performance.’

More here, if you’re still awake.

An ‘interview’ like this restores one’s faith in journalism.