Kirill Petrenko’s other orchestra
OrchestrasFrom our Tel Aviv correspondent Dan Yakir:
Tonight Kirill Petrenko will conclude a week of subscription concerts with the Israel Philharmonic: six concerts in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa.
The Israel Philharmonic is the only orchestra with which he guest conduct on a regular basis. The program includes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Beethoven Symphony no. 8 and in between Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra. The concerts were received with rapturous applause and rave reviews.
Schoenberg is not extremely popular with Israeli audiences so the piece was preceded by a charming and an intelligent talk by second violinist and Strings Attached podcaster Asaf Maoz. Petrenko scrupulously prepared the orchestra for this piece and it was well received. Those who took their places early enough before the concert on Friday could see him giving notes on stage to the principal bass before the fifth concert. Former colleagues from the Bayerische Staatsoper say that for him the rehearsals never end. It seems that he is totally committed and that he is in an ongoing process of thinking about the music that constantly keeps playing within him.
In the summer he will conduct an identical program with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Salzburg and Lucerne festivals.
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