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Kirill Kondrashin
Gregor Tassie
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Description for Kirill Kondrashin
Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH; AVRB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 732.
Kirill Kondrashin is regarded as one of the most brilliant Russian conductors of the 20th century and a great interpreter of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler. In Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music, Gregor Tassie presents a full biography of the artist, from his humble background and early conducting experience at age 17, through his 20 years in Leningrad and at the Bolshoi Theatre; from his breaking with the Bolshoi and the expanded symphonic career that followed, through his defection in 1978, and his unexpected death of a heart attack in 1981. Using first hand accounts and previously unavailable ... Read more
Kirill Kondrashin is regarded as one of the most brilliant Russian conductors of the 20th century and a great interpreter of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler. In Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music, Gregor Tassie presents a full biography of the artist, from his humble background and early conducting experience at age 17, through his 20 years in Leningrad and at the Bolshoi Theatre; from his breaking with the Bolshoi and the expanded symphonic career that followed, through his defection in 1978, and his unexpected death of a heart attack in 1981. Using first hand accounts and previously unavailable ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810869745
SKU
V9780810869745
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Ref
99-15
About Gregor Tassie
Gregor Tassie has written for magazines such as Gramophone, Musical Opinion, and Classical Record Collector. He is the author of Yevgeny Mravinsky: The Noble Conductor (Scarecrow, 2005).
Reviews for Kirill Kondrashin
Gregor Tassie's new biography contains some anecdotes pertaining to Kondrashin's Bolshoi years (1943–56) that will be of interest to operaphiles....The volume contains a useful chronology and an admirably thorough...discography.
Opera News
[Kondrashin's] life is fleshed out and told in excellent fashion by this well-documented biographical study. … The result is a study which commemorates a great conductor excellently. ... Read more
Opera News
[Kondrashin's] life is fleshed out and told in excellent fashion by this well-documented biographical study. … The result is a study which commemorates a great conductor excellently. ... Read more