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Celebrities such as Alexander Melik-Pacheiev and Evgeny Mravinsky also studied under Gauk.
Svetlanov gave his first concert performances as a conductor on the radio as early as 1953, while he was still a student. From 1965 he was principal conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (now the Russian State Symphony Orchestra). As Svetlanov explains, “Before the Revolution, even though there were some excellent conductors, such as Balakirev and Rubinstein, there was no genuine Russian conducting school: Gauk created it and if only for this his name should remain in the annals of our musical history”.
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Svetlanov left behind a monumental legacy: around 2,000 video and audio recordings, 175 original compositions, the books Music Today (1985), and Turning the Pages of Life (2014, posthumously), along with numerous interviews, documentaries, TV appearances, letters, and essays.
“If a simple man from a remote village comes to my concert—someone who had never heard anything but an accordion—and leaves wanting to come back again, then my life was not lived in vain.”
In his will, Evgeny Svetlanov expressed his wish to create an international conducting competition to support young talents in their careers.
Rare footage of concerts and rehearsals, as well as interviews with those close to him, are woven together in this documentary to paint a fascinating portrait of one of the most inspired artists of his age.
"On the day of the concert, countless times, for many years now, I always get that same feeling. In 1964, he led the Bolshoi’s first tour in Italy, which proved a resounding success.The following year, Evgeny Svetlanov took over the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, which he had known for ten years, and headed the orchestra for over thirty five seasons, ranging from subscription concerts in Moscow (and all over the Soviet Union) to phenomenally successful overseas tours and a countless number of recordings: during his tenure with the orchestra the maestro recorded an anthology of Russian music covering both the entire romantic and post-romantic period to modern times.
However Svetlanov completed over three thousand recordings throughout his career for Russian, Japanese, French, British and Dutch record companies.
Program notes
Evgeny Svetlanov made a strong mark on the 20th century’s musical landscape. A Grand concert hall in the Moscow International House of Music and a street in Moscow also bear his name.
From 1955 he conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre, becoming principal conductor (1962-1964). His parents were both members of the Bolshoi Theatre company and his mother, née Kruglikova, appeared as Tatyana in “Eugene Onegin ” and performed the lead role in “Madame Butterfly ” : from early childhood, Evgeny was captivated by the theatre and for example appeared as the son of Cio-Cio-San on the most prestigious lyrical stage of the Soviet Union (it was precisely in memory of this recollection that he conducted his last performance of Puccini’s opera in Montpellier, one month before his death – thus the cycle was ended).
He studied at the Gnessin school until 1951 and at the Moscow Conservatory until 1955, attending the conducting classes of Mikhail Gnessin and Yuri Chaporin, whose oratorios and cantatas he subsequently recorded; his piano teacher was the great Heinrich Neuhaus ; his conducting mentor was Alexander Gauk, the founder of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra in 1936 and an emblematic figure of modern interpretation.
He died in Moscow aged 73 in 2002.
Buy | Stream | DownloadYevgeny Svetlanov: Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
The great Yevgeny Svetlanov frequently conducted Debussy.
Evgeny Svetlanov: Rimsky-Korsakov & Glinka
The great Russian conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov was born in Moscow in 1928 and studied with Alexander Gauk at the Moscow Conservatory.
Svetlanov’s concert with the LSO from October 1979 is a rarity since his only recording dates back to an early Melodiya account.
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MP3 Album:BRAHMS Symphony No.3 DEBUSSY La Mer London Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 17 APRIL 1975 BONUS CHAUSSON Poème de l’amour et de la mer: La Mort de l’amour – Le Temps des lilas Janet Baker MEZZO-SOPRANO London Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 17 APRIL 1975
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MP3 Album:RACHMANINOV Symphony No.2 Philharmonia Orchestra/Svetlanov ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 15 MARCH 1993 - BERNSTEIN Candide Overture LSO/Svetlanov USHER HALL, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, 28 AUGUST 1978
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MP3:RACHMANINOV The Bells Daniil Shtoda (TENOR) Elena Prokina (SOPRANO) Sergei Leiferkus (BARITONE) BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov BARBICAN, LONDON, 19 APRIL 2002 - PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky Alfreda Hodgson (MEZZO-SOPRANO) Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 30 JANUARY 1988
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MP3 Album:SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.10 USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 21 AUGUST 1968 - TCHAIKOVSKY Snow Maiden Suite – Melodrama ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 22 AUGUST 1968 - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Invisible City of Kitezh – Hymn to Nature – Tartar Invasion & Battle of Kerzhenets USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 30 AUGUST 1968
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MP3 Album:Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1 BBC Symphony Orchestra (Barbican, London, 19 April 2002) Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945 version) Philharmonia (Barbican, London, 5 June 1996)
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Evgeny Svetlanov was born in Moscow on 6 September 1928 into a family of musicians and artists.
Thanks to his wife, Nina Svetlanova, and his agent Marina Bower, this wish came true in 2007.
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Svetlanov was a leading interpreter of Russian composers including Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky, Miaskovsky and Scriabin, but also a large number of non-Russian composers ranging from Debussy to Elgar. His interpretation of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune in the Philharmonia concert recorded here in 2001 has an almost operatically vocal style, coupled with spacious tempo.
This was a monumental task that Svetlanov conducted methodically over twenty five years while interpreting, both on record and in the concert hall, the German ( from Mozart to Schönberg, with a marked preference for Mahler) and French repertoires (Debussy, Ravel and Dukas,with the notable exception of Berlioz). He was buried next to his mother at the Vagankovo Cemetery, as he had wished.
In 2006, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia was named after Svetlanov.
The feeling that this day is unlike any other, that it's special somehow." - Evgeny Svetlanov
This program has been kindly shared with us by the Evgeny Svetlanov Foundation to celebrate the maestro's 90th anniversary.
Biography
Conductor, composer, pianist, publicist—Svetlanov left an indelible mark on the musical scene of the second half of the 20th century.
“By the scope of his artistic vision, he is the black soil of Russian music.
Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes was composed for sextet in 1919 while in the USA, but was re-scored for orchestra in 1934. A renowned pianist and conductor, he dedicated almost 30 years of his life to composition, and his work belongs, according to his own words, to the “continuity of the great Russian tradition.” His attachment to Russian repertoire also shaped his conducting career, and as the director of the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, he promoted these works.
Svetlanov's conducting of Respighi’s orchestration of two of Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in October 1999, is typically atmospheric in the first tableaux – La Mer et les Mouettes (The Sea and the Gulls) following Debussy’s La Mer, while the second, La Foire (The Fair) demonstrates the conductor’s wonderful ear for colour.