RLPO/Vasily Petrenko | Classical review

Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolVasily Petrenko hails from St Petersburg, so there has been a certain amount of curiosity as to just what he might bring to Stravinsky's Petrushka, one of classical music's most remarkable evocations of his native city. As one might expect, his performance had great brilliance and flair, and was played with the bravura exactitude that characterises his work with the Liverpool Philharmonic. But what startled was its revolutionary quality, as though Stravinsky, in pushi...

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