Vasily Petrenko began his music education at Russia’s oldest music ... with a powerful rendition of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’. At the same time as the RPO appointment, Petrenko is also ...

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 ...