Kirill Petrenko en het Concertgebouworkest - Bartók

Kirill Petrenko

In January 2013 Kirill Petrenko made his debut with the Concertgebouworkest. Press and public were wildly enthusiastic. 'With his versatile body language and his enthusiastic relationship with the orchestra, Petrenko makes it an experience', wrote de Volkskrant . Two and a half years later, the surprising news came that the Russian would become the new chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He has now been firmly in the saddle for three seasons and is regarded as one of the greatest conductors in the world.

Bartók's The Wooden Prince

So it's high time for a renewed acquaintance. And how! Kirill Petrenko conducts the complete ballet music The Wooden Prince , one of Bartók's most accessible and fairytale-like scores, which made the composer instantly famous in his native Hungary. The program opens with the groundbreaking music that Alban Berg wrote in the same period, the Drei Orchesterstücke .