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Vasily Petrenko on Mahler
4th Jun 2026
The Russian conductor joins a live audience at Presto HQ via video-link to discuss his new recording of Symphony No. 3 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (released on Harmonia Mundi last month).
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Vasily Petrenko and the RPO hear the chimes at midnight
14th Nov 2025
An unlikely-looking diptych of Rachmaninoff's The Bells and Elgar's Falstaff puts the RPO and chorus through their paces; Vasily Petrenko brings to the surface the common ground the two works share.
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Vasily Petrenko on Elgar and Rachmaninoff
6th Nov 2025
Ahead of the release of their debut recording on Harmonia Mundi next week, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Music Director reflects on the parallels between two works which were premiered in 1913 - Elgar's Falstaff and Rachmaninoff's The Bells.
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Vasily Petrenko conducts Russian and Austrian symphonies and orchestral works
21st May 2021
A double bill from the Russian-British conductor, with the Oslo Philharmonic performing symphonies by Prokofiev and Myaskovsky, and tone poems by Zemlinsky and Schreker with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Vasily Petrenko conducts Stravinsky & Respighi
30th Oct 2020
Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra perform two contrasting ballets from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Stravinsky's unnerving Petrushka and Respighi's sparkling Boutique fantasque.
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Rimsky-Korsakov from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
12th Jun 2020
As on their recent series of Strauss tone poems, the Russian conductor and his Norwegian orchestra prove themselves master story-tellers on this trio of showpieces from the late 1880s.
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Vasily Petrenko on Rimsky-Korsakov
12th Jun 2020
The Russian conductor talks to Katherine about today's Recording of the Week and reflects on his time with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov from Vasily Petrenko and the Liverpool Philharmonic
14th Dec 2018
The Russian conductor presides over sparkling, taut accounts of two avian fairy-tales: the complete ballet music for The Firebird and the suite from the posthumously-premiered opera Le Coq d’Or.
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Scriabin's First and Fifth Symphonies from Vasily Petrenko
21st Sep 2018
The Russian conductor and the Oslo Philharmonic are joined by pianist Kirill Gerstein for the final instalment of Scriabin's complete symphonies on LAWO.
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Vasily Petrenko conducts music by Scriabin
8th Dec 2017
James listens to a stirring performance of music by Scriabin from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic, released in October and chosen as one of our Top Ten Discs of the Year.
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Vasily Petrenko completes his cycle of Tchaikovsky Symphonies
20th Jan 2017
James listens to the culmination of Vasily Petrenko's Tchaikovsky cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - symphonies Nos. 3, 4, and 6.
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Vasily Petrenko on Tchaikovsky
19th Jan 2017
Katherine talks to the Russian conductor about his Tchaikovsky cycle with the Liverpool Philharmonic on Onyx.
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Tchaikovsky Symphonies conducted by Vasily Petrenko
10th Jun 2016
James listens to Vasily Petrenko's triple-bill of Tchaikovsky symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Vasily Petrenko on Scriabin
5th Nov 2015
David talks to the conductor about the launch of his Scriabin project with the Oslo Philharmonic.
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Vasily Petrenko completes his cycle of Shostakovich symphonies
22nd Sep 2014
David listens to the final instalment in Vasily Petrenko's Shostakovich symphony cycle with the RLPO, the dark and angry No. 13 in B flat minor ('Babi Yar').
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Shostakovich 11 from the RLPO
6th Apr 2009
The latest instalment of Vasily Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle with his Liverpool orchestra prompts Chris to draw comparisons with Rattle’s landmark work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra…
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Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony
3rd Nov 2008
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and their principal conductor Vasily Petrenko give a ‘bright and characterful’ account of Tchaikovsky’s Byron-inspired symphony, coupled with the symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.
