The elusive, unknown Mravinsky

Concertgebouw79 says:

Very interisting documentary with the presence of Mariss Jansons. I have seen this documentary few years ago. I recomand in LP the DG box of 4-6 symphonies. The covers are superbs but it’s a shame there’s no name for the painter of the three covers.

Petros Linardos says:

Insightful and moving. Thank you for posting.

Henry williams says:

Great conductor. He had 3wives. Iam surprised he does not seem very jolly.

Robert Rÿker says:

I was in Philharmonic Hall one afternoon in 1963 while the Montreal Symphony was in Russia on tour. I walked in, and there was the Leningrad Symphony playing an afternoon concert. 2,000 people were listening raptly to Saint-Saens.
The orchestra began the quiet section of the Tortoise. Standing at the very back of the hall, I felt the hair on my head rising at the back. This was not my imagination — the hair was standing up. Incredulous, I wondered even then what was happening. The complete concentration for the amazing pianissississimo by the players generated a correspondingly intense concentration throughout the audience. No one breathed, and it affected even me, standing at the very back.
I shall never forget it. That was a period, now past, when a great conductor could be an absolute ruler over an orchestra, and that was Mravinsky.