St. Petersburg’s Sound, Then and Now
Friday, February 21st, 2014By Sedgwick Clark One of Yuri Temirkanov’s goals when he became music director of the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Philharmonic in 1988 was to give it a more “international” sound—to smooth over the deliberately edgy sonority cultured by the ensemble’s long-time maestro, Yevgeny Mravinsky (1903-1988). Why, I wondered? The orchestra’s four concerts of Russian music […]
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