Kirill Petrenko
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Petrenko has a way of hearing deep into textures and harmonies that is at times really quite startling. He gives us X-ray ears. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Orchestral
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Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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The sound is so stunningly present, so perfectly tailored, that I missed any sense of a single occasion. Details are amazing, for which I’m grateful, but sometimes they only add to a feeling... —
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Record Review, 25th May 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th May 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Beethoven, Berg & Bartók: Violin Concertos
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko, Alan Gilbert
Where this set really comes into its own is with the 20th-century concertos, most especially the Berg, a work whose combination of Romantic cantabile, emotional thrust and tonally stretched... —
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Record Review, 2nd October 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Concerto
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The John Adams Edition
RecommendedBerliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, John Adams, Alan Gilbert, Gustavo Dudamel, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle
Both [Harmonielehre and The Gospel According to the Other Mary] benefit from the full palette of the Berlin Philharmonic, from powerful lower brass to exquisite wind solos and sensuous strings;... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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I don't doubt Brahms would have approved, at any rate, of this rendition of his Tragic Overture, which is thrillingly done, vital with a richness of sound and drama that is maintained throughout... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Orchestral Choice
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Kirill Petrenko conducts Arnold Schoenberg
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko
Petrenko brings to it the charisma, the intensity, and cardinal virtues of fluent but absolute control over both line and detail that distinguished his performances of Schoenberg's tonal contemporaries...Taken... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Assorted Programs
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th December 2025
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Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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The Tenth Symphony is by far and away the best of these three performances...Under Petrenko the great arc of the first movement is mapped with a grandly defiant symphonic logic...When it comes,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Rachmaninoff 150
Piano Concerto No. 2 & Other Piano Works
Kirill Gerstein (piano), Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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