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Conversations with Gennady Rojdestvensky

A four-hour conversation with Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, the last living representative of a prestigious array of great interpreters from the Soviet era whose names include those of Richter, Oistrakh, Rostropovich, Gilels, Kogan and Mravinsky.  As a conductor, Rozhdestvensky was to an inevitable extent involved in an administrative type of organization, knowing more about the mysteries of the Soviet Union than others. Deeply committed to contemporary music, he was a close friend of such great composers as Shostakovich and Schnittke, Prokofiev. Rozhdestvensky is a highly colourful character, a born raconteur and profoundly Russian  that Bruno Monsaingeon reveals us with passion.