Yevgeny Mravinsky

Yevgeny Mravinski It is said that when Evgeni Mravinsky presented “his” Leningrad Philharmonic in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956, the audience seemed to discover another Tchaikovsky, far removed from the dramatic, tense, impetuous and even tearful versions of his symphonies that Western European and American conductors used to give. The Russian conductor seemed...