Kirill Petrenko conducts Mozart and Schumann

Kirill Petrenko continues to demonstrate his commitment to the Classical and Romantic core repertoire of the Berliner Philharmoniker with Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony: a resounding work with a fascinatingly ambiguous mood. Thoughtfulness is combined with optimism here; exuberance is pervaded with doubt. In addition, there are also two sacred works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with worldly joie de vivre and expressiveness: the jubilant motet Exsultate, jubilate, with its virtuosic soprano solos, and the festive, operatically expressive “Coronation” Mass.