Around the turn of the 20th century, Arnold Bocklin's brooding painting The Isle of the Dead made for one of the most popular images in Europe... Rachmaninoff was inspired to write a tone poem.
The Philharmonic played with force and finesse under its chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko, illuminating the deathless classics of the repertoire, such as Dvorak's Seventh Symphony and Bruckner's Fifth.
Petrenko conducted The Isle of the Dead with the same luminous seriousness he might bring to Wagner's Parsifal, making it taut and ferocious, morose without heaviness.
These players' cohesion allowed them to create uncannily evocative atmospheres, with movements that had a moonlit glow and a balanced orchestral blast.
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