Western musicians are returning to Russia

There seems to be a growing trickle of  musicians who are happy to  break sanctions and work in Putinn’s Russia.

Teodor Currentzis,  who performed two Stravinsky concerts in Moscow this week has long been committed to the Putin cause.

Alexannder Rahbari is coat-tailing with Gergiev in st Petersburg.

But more have joined them.

The young Spaniard Jordi Benaser is conducting at the Bolshoi.

The UK pianist Freddy Kempf is performing in Omsk this week, saying ‘Russia is too important for me to abandon it because of cancel culture.’

The Italian pianist Lorenzo Bagnati, 24, has moved to Moscow and is touring at the moment in Arkhangelsk, St. Petersburg and Tyumen.

A French pianist is also flitting back and forth.

Not many, but enough to be concerned that unanimty over Putin’s crimes is melting.