Yes, it’s true: Kirill Petrenko is the seventh principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. As evening exclusively reported on the “World” blog “Brugs classic”, the orchestra had, unnoticed held by the interested public, on Sunday, a second round of voting. This, surely much of the music world satisfactory result for the present until 2018 reigning general music director of the Bavarian State Opera. Which is not clear when Petrenko will begin on the Spree. 2018 simultaneously with Sir Simon Rattle’s departure, probably not.
The 43-year-old Russian one of the greatest talents console ever. A meticulous tester, self-doubt Ange Nagter, the one plant get to the bottom, to understand it and interpret in the best possible highest ideal is. The order does not make it and the musicians easily. One who asks – and others. Something like the musician, at the same time it nibbles on her self-esteem. But Petrenko seems since to find the balance. Although he sometimes leaves too little freedom, something that both Berlin by Claudio Abbado as Simon Rattle know, but had to learn to appreciate only. Whether they want to be now so again fucked hard?
In addition, the course also speaks for Petrenko, he is in Berlin a known quantity. After he had noticed (from 1997-99 as music director) and then as chief conductor in Meiningen (1999-2002) previously at the Vienna Volksoper, in Thuringia, especially with Wagner’s “Ring” in four days with two orchestras, his star quietly but steadily brighter as chief conductor of the Komische Oper on. Here Petrenko proved absolute team player, but hard in the orchestra thing. He wore some extreme productions, Peter Konwitschny with a shootout ending “Don Giovanni” or the so brutal and touching “Abduction from the Seraglio” by Calixto Bieito, yea virtue of his unassailable musicianship he kept them from any scandal.
A yellow Ostfriesennerz for the boss
When in 2007 he gave his last concert there after six exciting years, he was – in allusion a similar ceremony in him directed “Land of Smiles” – with a yellow Ostfriesennerz excellent, on which all had signed. Because at the Komische Oper Petrenko was loved, you knew what you had to him; of the following two principal conductors can not say that.
Then had Kirill Petrenko initially preferred to operate freely, his growing fame came still the mainly Opera benefit, where he, in London and Vienna, New York and Lyon guested internationally with great success. He is whole-heartedly been a man of musical theater. His concert repertoire against acts until today relatively small and eclectic. So he has in his only three concert programs with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2006, 2009 and 2012 not a symphonic work of the core repertoire conducted. The musicians know the elusive conductor who is no more interviews for some time, with Bartók, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto, Stravinsky, Scriabin and Rudi Stephan.
And they have nevertheless decided on this exotic basis, for him; Late last year, a planned series of concerts with Mahler’s 6th Symphony, he had also cancels under strange circumstances. Petrenko currently completes own Mahler experiences, each symphonic endeavor familiar orchestral first encounters with him at the helm of the Bavarian State Orchestra, precede aware peripherally selected ensembles in Vorarlberg and Omsk.
Christian Thielemann was not sufficient majority
The Berliner Philharmoniker have already started on May 11, a first-line test in which you look after more than eleven hours of discussion could not reach agreement. According to reports, it will then certainly have gone mainly to Christian Thielemann and Andris Nelsons as possible bosses. How to listen further, to the way Thielemann and Nelson have signaled thereafter, no longer as a potential chief of the Philharmonic available. One of them, because he had not been selected to be equal with resounding majority. The other, which is said to have put it nice, because he anyway wanted to stay at least a second term at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he has only begun last autumn. Contract negotiations in Massachusetts are already running already.
Kirill Petrenko therefore is second choice. And maybe not. First was in the orchestra, even if that is consistently denied, apparently tuned after Öffentlichkeitsappeal, media recyclability and importance. The controversial Thielemann, behind the focused primarily parts of the boards, did not get any viable majority, the more common, even very young Nelsons also. So then came now, because the partially rugged media reactions after the unsuccessful first round of voting have the orchestra obviously made to think, the classic outsider to the course, which seemed to have been already installed. Its fantastic educator qualities then probably made the difference.
He has a domineering mother
Kirill Petrenko, interestingly, next to Daniel Barenboim and Ivan Fischer, the third Jew on a Berlin executive chair, brings, as well as Thielemann would have done a dominant mother in the relationship. But nothing else Zwischenmenschliches him is what many has facilitated foreign. Which at least one of this year’s Bayreuth singers could tell.
Kirill Petrenko will change the image of the orchestra, as a public figure, a communicator and worldly interlocutor as Simon Rattle, he is not. He’s not smart, with him Shall the music. So he was not present at the announcement meeting, neither flesh nor video virtual, but rehearsed in Bayreuth. He had a beautiful, honest message but: “I embrace this orchestra.”
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