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'Allegro con fuoco' from Manfred Symphony

Tchaikovsky: 'Allegro con fuoco' from Manfred Symphony

Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Naxos
Cat. No.: 8.570568

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Vasily Petrenko Conductor

Chief Conductor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Principal Conductor, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Born and educated in St Petersburg (at the St Petersburg Capella Boys Music School and the St Petersburg Conservatoire), Vasily Petrenko was Resident Conductor at the St Petersburg State Opera and Ballet Theatre (1994-7) and Chief Conductor of the State Academy Orchestra of St Petersburg (2004-7). He is Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (contract extended until 2015), and Principal Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

In recent seasons, he made debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Budapest Festival Orchestras, Dallas, Baltimore, Cincinnati and St Louis Symphony Orchestras, his BBC Proms debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and toured with the European Union Youth Orchestra. Debuts in 09/10 and beyond include the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Frankfurt and Finnish Radio Symphonies, NHK Symphony Tokyo and Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra Washington.

His wide operatic repertoire includes Le Villi, I due Foscari and Boris Godounov (Netherlands Reisopera) and Pique Dame (Hamburg State Opera) and future plans include his debuts at Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Macbeth), and the Opera de Paris (Eugene Onegin).

Recordings with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic include a rare double bill of Fleishman’s Rothschild’s Violin and Shostakovich’s The Gamblers, and a disc of suites from Tchaikovsky’s ballets. Recently released are his debut recordings for Naxos of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony (winner of the 2009 Gramophone Award for Best Orchestral Recording), the Liszt Piano Concertos, and the first discs of an ongoing Shostakovich cycle (Symphonies 5, 9 and 11). In 2007 Vasily Petrenko was named Young Artist of the Year at the annual Gramophone Awards, and in 2009 he was awarded Honorary Doctorates by both the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University, in recognition of the immense impact he has had on the city’s cultural scene.

For concerts and events of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, please visit: www.liverpoolphil.com

Season 2009/10

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