Kirill Petrenko with the Israel Phil … and which soloist?
mainAt the Berlin Phil, Petrenko gets landed with headline soloists and sometimes has little say in who plays concertos.
But when guest conducting abroad he can choose his own…. and it’s a clue to his own personality and contemporaries to see who he picks.
In Israel next month, he will conduct Mozart K491 with the ex-Yugoslav pianist Tamara Stefanovich, 46, who is married to Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Not a big name, but an artist for cognoscenti.
Fantastic pianist. Heard her play the (almost) complete Boulez with Mr. Stefanovich.
Wonderful & fearless artist, she played 50 études from 3 centuries last weekend in Milton Court. Wishes there were more people there to listen.
You think he has „little say“ in Berlin? Petrenko??My God so naive in your age….
Stefanovich is rightly acclaimed for her performance of modern and contemporary repertoire. But Mozart?
Petrenko was engaged to conduct Concertgebouw a couple of years ago. He planned to play Mozart piano concerto no. 24 with Radu Lupu on that occasion before he cancelled due to health reasons. I suspect he asked Lupu to play the same concerto this time with Israel Philharmonic, before Lupu announced he would retire earlier this year.
What’s the news about it?
Is it true that guest conductors get to choose their own soloists? When we have guest conductors, they and the soloist usually seem to be meeting for the first time. Or did you just mean Petrenko (and maybe others of his level)?
It depends. Guest conductors of Kirin Petrenko’s caliber certainly do have a say in choosing which soloists they get to “accompany”.
That is Kirill, of course.
My apologies for confusing a highly esteemed musician with Japanese beer, regardless of how much I do enjoy it.
I would be surprised if the conductor wasn’t at least consulted. You would not want to have two people on stage on hated each other and could not co-operate.
I know the players run the orchestra to an usual degree in Berlin, but surely Petrenko has some say over the soloists who play with him there. Why would they book him if they didn’t trust his judgment there or want to take advantage of his connections? (though I suppose nobody says no to the Berlin Phil).
Carlos Kleiber did. After Von Karajan’s passing the BPO wanted him to take over. He declined the offer.
But what will she be wearing?
What is the ‘news’ about the appearance of an artist who basically owes her career to being married to a rather overrated pianist?