Vasily Petrenko began his music education at Russia’s oldest ... to name a fine few. He became Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in 2006 and becomes the new Music Director of the ...

No evening starts on the right foot when a superstar soloist is off sick. When it turned out that pianist Yunchan Lim is being treated for a hand injury and could not play in yesterday’s Royal ...

The opening goes off like a cartoon alarm clock, shrill and insistent, the ensuing march more satirical, almost more Prokofiev than Shostakovich in Vasily Petrenko’s hands. This is less the child of ...