VAN Magazine about "Tannhäuser" in Berlin - Pietari Inkinen Pietari Inkinen

Press | 13.11.2023

VAN Magazine about “Tannhäuser” in Berlin

Albrecht Selge from the German VAN Magazine published a rave review about “Tannhäuser” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. You can find an English translation of part of the article and a link to the complete review in German here below.

“In this Tannhäuser performance, too, I am captivated by the very lively sound and the melos that Inkinen leads the orchestra to. The warmth of the strings, the majesty and clarity of the wind instruments, the dramatic quality of everything, and always a great support towards the singers: what the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper does under Pietari Inkinen’s baton is, for me, one of the strongest Wagner performances I have experienced at this house in years.”

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Press | 16.08.2024

Pietari Inkinen shows “his impressive grasp of the big musical picture”

“It is as if Prokofiev is telling his friend Rostropovich “show us what you’ve got” in some passages, and this was a remarkable performance with Gerhardt totally in sync with Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, another favourite with Australian audiences, especially after his magnificent survey of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Melbourne for Opera Australia in 2016. He showed his impressive grasp of the big musical picture in the second half with an outstanding performance of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, written at the time of his disastrous marriage to Antoninya Milyukova and which shocked his patron Nadezhda von Meck with its “profound, terrifying despair”. The orchestra was in magnificent form, with Inkinen, ever the man for the big moment, shaping the massive first movement, with its dramatic momentum tempered with the delicate brightness of the winds, into a cohesive whole. There were too many fine solo moments throughout the four movements to pick out any for special mention. If the second half began with a fateful blaze of brass the evening also started with a fanfare, a new work by former SSO composer-in-residence Liza Lim as part of the orchestra’s long running project commissioning 50 new Australian works. Salutations to the Shells refers to the Indigenous seashell monuments – some as high as 12m high – that lined the shores and estuaries of Port Jackson and which were burnt and used in the buildings of the Rocks by the early colonists. Over its 10 minutes Lim’s powerful work juxtaposes the brass and snare drums of the military with an oceanic sway and a subtle sense of loss at the destruction of an ancient Indigenous city. Some of the opening passages with horns, trumpets and trombones had a Sibelius-like quality, while sliding figures and the use of two vibraphones and a range of percussion effects all added to the canvas of textures and sounds.” Steve Moffatt, Limelight Magazine

Press | 08.06.2024

Interview with Spanish magazine Scherzo

'Pietari Inkinen: “El panorama musical finlandés sería muy distinto sin la música de Sibelius”'

Press | 11.05.2024

Interview with Saarbrücker Zeitung

In May, Pietari Inkinen gave an interview for Saarbrücker Zeitung about his upcoming final season as Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie. You can access the feature online at the following link:

Press | 26.02.2024

Interview with Musica

Pietari Inkinen recently spoke with Nicola Cattò from the Italian Musica magazine. The six pages interview has just been published in the magazine's March issue. Subjects discussed include Pietari Inkinen's connection with Italy, the "Finnish conducting school", Bayreuth and more. You can purchase the print or digital edition of the magazine on the following link:

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