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Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 (2023)

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Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 (2023)

Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 69:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.574152 | Recorded: 2019, 2022

For 19th-century audiences Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions with brilliance and triumphant grandeur. Piano Concerto No. 4 is the most introspective and poetic of the concertos. The simplicity of its opening piano statement gives way to an unprecedented dialogue in the central movement between a heartfelt piano and an austere unison string orchestra, before the infectious energy of the dramatic finale.

Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 (2013)

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Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 (2013)

Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 4 (2013)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 264 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 153 Mb | Artwork included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573188 | Time: 01:04:57

Completed in 1936 but withdrawn during rehearsal and not performed until 1961, the searing Fourth Symphony finds Shostakovich stretching his musical idiom to the limit in the search for a personal means of expression at a time of undoubted personal and professional crisis. The opening movement, a complex and unpredictable take on sonata form that teems with a dazzling profusion of varied motifs, is followed by a short, eerie central movement. The finale opens with a funeral march leading to a climax of seismic physical force that gives way to a bleak and harrowing minor key coda. The Symphony has since become one of the most highly regarded of the composer’s large-scale works.

Vasily Petrenko, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade (2020)

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Vasily Petrenko, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade (2020)

Vasily Petrenko, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade, Russian Easter Festival Overture (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 74:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: LAWO | # LWC1198 | Recorded: 2019

It was Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's older brother, Voin, who first put ideas of travel, ships and the sea into the would-be composer's head. The young Nikolay had never set foot aboard a boat but Voin's evocative letters home from the Far East, where he was stationed in the Imperial Russian Navy, proved more than sufficient. In 1856, he enrolled as a naval cadet and completed six years of training. Barely a year into his studies at the naval academy, the young Nikolay saw his first opera. Soon he heard symphonies by Beethoven and Mendelssohn and encountered a piece by his senior Mikhail Glinka, Jota Aragonesa. Even before he embarked on a three-year voyage around the world aboard a clipper, Rimsky knew he wanted to be a composer, not a seaman.

Vasily Petrenko - Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker, Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty (2007)

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Vasily Petrenko - Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker, Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty (2007)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko - Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker, Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 243 MB | 57:56
Genre: Classical | Label: Avie

Like much of Tchaikovsky's musical output, his ballet scores were often subject to criticism. This is certainly true of his first attempt at ballet, Swan Lake. Although still firmly rooted in the traditions of the day, Tchaikovsky certainly tried to move out on his own by making the score much more orchestra-based than most of his predecessors. This, of course, drew the ire of dancers and theater directors alike as the attention was taken away from the dancers and placed on the musicians. History shines more favorably on Tchaikovsky's independent streak, making him the first Russian composer whose ballet scores are played as stand-alone orchestral works, not to mention the fact that Tchaikovsky was unknowingly paving the way for a string of subsequent Russian ballet composers like Stravinsky and Prokofiev.

Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar' (2014)

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Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar' (2014)

Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar' (2014)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 205 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573218 | Time: 00:59:36

If one function of art is to make us ponder difficult questions and thus risk causing offence, there could not be a more potent example than Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony. Setting Babi Yar, Yevtushenko’s blistering denunciation of Soviet antisemitism, in the 1960s was an act of political defiance for the composer. First heard in this country in Liverpool, it is highly appropriate that it forms the conclusion and climax of the RLPO’s riveting Shostakovich cycle. The power this performance accumulates at the climaxes of the second and third movement is lacerating; the men’s choruses may not sound totally Russian, but Alexander Vinogradov is a superb bass soloist, and Vasily Petrenko is as good at gloomy introspection as he is at brittle confrontation.

Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 & 0, WoO 4 (2022)

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Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 & 0, WoO 4 (2022)

Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 & 0, WoO 4 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 225 Mb | Total time: 62:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.574153 | Recorded: 2019, 2020

These works share the common key of E flat major but represent two very different stages in the composer’s life. The Piano Concerto No. 0, WoO 4, written when Beethoven was 13 years old, is one of his earliest works. With the orchestral score lost, this extant version for piano solo written in Beethoven’s hand includes the tutti sections reduced for piano. The radiant ‘Emperor’ Concerto shows the 38-year-old Beethoven at the peak of his creative powers, and remains a glorious example of his spirit triumphing over life’s adversities.

Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (2010)

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Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (2010)

Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 (2010)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 233 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 122 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572461 | Time: 00:52:08

This performance goes right to the top. Not since the amazing mono Ancerl recording has there been a version of this work of such intensity, such expressive urgency, and (yes, believe it or not) such incredible orchestral playing. It’s impossible to praise the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic enough: they put their London colleagues to shame. The cellos and basses have a dark, tactile presence in pianissimo not heard since the old Kondrashin Melodiya recording. The horns play the daylights out of their solos in the first and third movements, while Petrenko has the violins sustaining, articulating, and phrasing the climax of the first movement with a passion and grit that’s beyond praise. Indeed, as an essay in Shostakovich conducting alone this performance deserves an honored place in every collection. Petrenko has the players digging into the second movement with unbridled ferocity at an ideally swift tempo.

Vasily Petrenko, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau; Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (2021)

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Vasily Petrenko, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau; Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (2021)

Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau; Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 78:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx Classics | # ONYX 4197 | Recorded: 2019, 2020

Following on from their critically acclaimed albums of Stravinsky, Elgar and Tchaikovsky, the award winning team of Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra turn to Zemlinsky and Schreker. Premiered in 1905, Zemlinsky's Die Seejungfrau (after Hans Christian Andersen) was almost ignored by the reviewers. Considered too conservative for the progressives, and too progressive for the conservatives, Zemlinsky struggled to overcome the negative reviews of this masterpiece and withdrew it in the immediate aftermath of the premiere. Vasily Petrenko for this recording uses the original version of the score which restores the "bei der Meerhexe" episode to the 2nd movement. One of the most progressive of the Viennese composers of this period, Schreker's dance pantomime Der Guburtstag der Infantine (story by Oscar Wilde) was given it's premiere in 1908 and was his first big success.

Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations (2019)

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Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations (2019)

Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 263 Mb | Total time: 66:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Onyx | # ONYX 4205 | Recorded: 2018

One of the happiest results of the influx of Russian talent into Britain has been conductor Vasily Petrenko's tenure with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, which he has led since 2009 and brought into the league of the major London orchestras. His recordings for the fine independent Onyx label have all been notable, but this one, featuring Elgar's Enigma Variations, Op. 36, is especially strong. Surely Petrenko did not have the Enigma Variations in his blood, and you might offhand expect him to make them sound like Tchaikovsky. Not a bit of it; this is a lean, light, and beautifully sculpted Enigma Variations, where sentiment emerges where it is warranted (sample the flowing and famous "Nimrod" variation) but is otherwise held in reserve, and each of the character sketches that make up the work have a vivid, lively quality.

Boris Giltburg, Rhys Owens, RLPO, Vasily Petrenko - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; String Quartet No. 8 (2017)

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Boris Giltburg, Rhys Owens, RLPO, Vasily Petrenko - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; String Quartet No. 8 (2017)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; String Quartet No. 8 (2017)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Boris Giltburg, piano; Rhys Owens, Trumpet

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 236 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 171 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573666 | Time: 01:09:45

Shostakovich’s two Piano Concertos span a period of almost thirty years. The youthful First Piano Concerto is a masterful example of eclecticism, its inscrutable humour and seriousness allied to virtuoso writing enhanced by the rôle for solo trumpet. Written as a birthday present for his son Maxim, the Second Piano Concerto is light-spirited with a hauntingly beautiful slow movement. With the permission of the composer’s family, Boris Giltburg has arranged the exceptionally dark, deeply personal and powerful String Quartet No. 8, thereby establishing a major Shostakovich solo piano composition.

Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 3 'The First Of May' (2011)

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Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 3 'The First Of May' (2011)

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 3 'The First Of May' (2011)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 249 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Artwork included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572396 | Time: 01:04:31

Even though Dmitry Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 in F minor was an academic exercise from his teens, and the Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ("The First of May"), a reflection of the avant-garde experimentation of the early Soviet period, these youthful works reveal salient characteristics of his personality that repeatedly surfaced in the later symphonies and should be considered as fully a part of the cycle. Shostakovich's expressions range from sardonic and brooding moods in the First to the energetic and violent activity of the Third, and these qualities are accurately conveyed in Vasily Petrenko's performances with the Royal Liverpool Orchestra, with the ensemble's choir included in the triumphal finale of the Third. The recordings have a wide audio range, so the extreme dynamics of Shostakovich's music can be heard with minimal adjustment of the volume. That said, much of the music is extremely quiet and eerily thin in texture, so attentive listening is required. But the fortissimos are everything they should be, and Petrenko elicits full sonorities from the orchestra.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations & Fugue on a theme by Purcell (2021)

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations & Fugue on a theme by Purcell (2021)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko - Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations & Fugue on a theme by Purcell, Op. 34 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 70 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 40 Mb | 00:17:22
Classical | Label: PM Classics

Many composers have written music for children, or about childhood. Very few however have been as successful in understanding the world of children and music as Benjamin Britten. His ‘Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ quickly became one of his most popular works internationally. It is a brilliant showpiece for orchestra based on a theme from ‘The Moor’s Revenge’ or ‘Abdelazar’ by Purcell. Variations for each section of the orchestra are followed by a brilliant fugue for the full orchestra. The RLPO has a long history with this piece and gave the first performance under Sir Malcolm Sargent in 1946, and the recording that followed that year won the ‘Orchestral Record of the Year’ award at the 1948 annual conference on Gramophone Critics in New York.

Vasily Petrenko & Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 27 (2021)

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Vasily Petrenko & Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 27 (2021)

Vasily Petrenko & Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 27 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 290 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 175 Mb | 01:16:25
Classical | Label: LAWO Classics

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) composed his Symphony No 6 in E flat minor, Opus 111 between 1945 and February 1947, though his sketches date from 1944 - before his completion of the Fifth Symphony. The scoring is for large orchestra includ­ing piccolo, cor anglais, E flat clarinet, contrabassoon, harp, piano, celesta and an array of percussion. Although the key of E flat minor is extremely rare in the symphonic literature, Myaskovsky also wrote a sixth symphony in that key.

Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905' (2009) [Re-Up]

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Royal Liverpool PO, Vasily Petrenko - Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905' (2009) [Re-Up]

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The Year 1905' (2009)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 217 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 141 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572082 | Time: 00:57:35

The good news is this recording of Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony is in the same class as the best ever made. The even better news is it's the start of a projected series of recordings of all the Soviet master's symphonies. Vasily Petrenko has demonstrated before this disc that he is among the most talented of young Russian conductors with superb recordings of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony and of selected ballet suites. But neither of those recordings can compare with this Eleventh. Paired as before with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Petrenko turns in a full-scale riot of a performance that is yet tightly controlled and cogently argued. Said to depict the failed revolution of 1905, Shostakovich's Eleventh is not often treated with the respect it deserves, except, of course, by Yevgeny Mravinsky, the greatest of Shostakovich conductors whose two accounts have been deemed the most searing on record. Until now: Petrenko respects the composer's score and his intentions by unleashing a performance of staggering immediacy and violence, a virtuoso performance of immense drama, enormous tragedy, and overwhelming power.

Vasily Petrenko, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Louisa Tuck - R.Strauss: Don Quixote; Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegels (2019)

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Vasily Petrenko, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Louisa Tuck - R.Strauss: Don Quixote; Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegels (2019)

Vasily Petrenko, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Louisa Tuck - Richard Strauss: Don Quixote; Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 313 Mb | Total time: 76:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Lawo Classics ‎| LWC1184 | Recorded: 2017

Vasily Petrenko is one of the most significant and galvanizing musicians alive. He became famous for his transformative work at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the oldest orchestra in the United Kingdom, where he refashioned the orchestra's sound, reconnected the organization to its home city and presided over a huge increase in ticket sales. Vasily is one of the most acclaimed classical recording artists alive and has won numerous accolades for his recordings of Russian repertoire, including two Gramophone awards.