MRAVINSKY -ROSTROPOVICH THE CONNECTION

ROSTROPOVICH : a faithfull recorder of his time needed a wall for his back. He found a fortress. ΜRAVINSKY he was someone who couldn`t be discussed,he was good or bad. HE WAS A GOD. THE ERA MRAVINSKY LIVED IS TO BE DISCUSSED BY THE INTERESTED PERSON. HIS MUSIC ISON OUR INTEREST...ONLY ABOUT MRAVINSKY Karajan after finishing the latest recording of the TCAICOVSKY 5th SYMPHONY asked to listen the Mravinsky prformance.After the hearing he..ordered the destruction of the tape recording. Mravinsky was rehearshing the Shostakovich 5th with the Leningrand philharmonic.He interrupts saying :Please my friends maybe you need the skills of an expert to transmit to you the need for precision here.You are ploding.We need you to be recharged just like a battery.It is another thing in the concert hall where we are burning by the emotions.Here we need to be exact.Please try again.

Mravinsky's rehearsal manner was said to be autocratic and brutal, and the resulting performances were tightly clenched. Yet they were also technically precise, finely detailed, subtly colored, and highly dramatic -- and this not always because he was in the habit of whipping fast finales into a frenzy. His readings had an intensity, concentration, and -- despite the arduous rehearsal -- spontaneity comparable to those of Wilhelm Furtwängler. In the West, Mravinsky was particularly noted as an interpreter of Shostakovich, whose Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth symphonies he premiered, and of Tchaikovsky. His recordings of the Tchaikovsky's last three symphonies, made in 1960 for Deutsche Grammophon while the orchestra was on tour in London, are touchstones of the Russian repertory.