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development which turned out in numbers. and voting for villains that indian election citizens choosing between the next murderers and must give pollsters still for different candidates taking on sundays more than they have a criminal cost. of putting a spotlight captures russia's cultural side gust. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on politics i am calgary love and today my guest in the studio is here and that sells itself. the most celebrated russian conduct there in the world ballet regear give got his first taste of international recognition at the age of twenty three when he won the

major herbut fun carry on the word in burley again gives emotional expression and exceptional passion for music has made him one of the most sought after conductors across the globe he has guest conducted most of the world's major orchestras since ninety nine to six and has been the general director of the mariinsky theatre in st petersburg and since two thousand and seven principal conductor up to london symphony orchestra gave its the open eyes are of several major international musical spectaculars on the band's most notably the white knights festival and it is birth and most days east of festival one of the foremost international conductors of all time caregiver has never been shy to react to major world issues especially bill's concern in his native caucasus after the two thousand and four busline school massacre he conducted a series of concerts in tribute to the victims on when the two thousand and eight

war sophos said he came to the team vault and conducted a concert near the room when parliament building in memory of those who died in the car. i i. i. i i i i i i. hello mr gifford welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today but. first of all i would like to ask you. you do different things you do so many things in your life except music i'll do lots of things along with music so music free is a trait

a business or admission. can you choose one of three visits is my world class or being. about. it doesn't really matter if moscow new york before him was music f.m. was orchestrated it was the singers was a chorus is what i know what i have to do or think and. it is also important for me to say that. moscow new york are big big cities but i find it more pleasant to go to listen on places smaller towns are wonderful music lovers was always a good i think that was waiting for really important musical events and that's where my heart tells me i have to go more and more if you conducted one person verdi's requiem with the marias can orchestrate in london this year you also are

the principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra so what are you preparing for london this year something something interesting i just came from london there was just three days ago four days ago i would perform. a very long order a beautiful world of parts. and a famous director feel very good so that was very recently and my next return visit to london is in may it will be totally dedicated to russian composer stormin scheme yugoslavia's keys give me the most famous composer of thank you century and maybe one of the absolutely most important positions of the century and i am always on the road to just conduct his music everywhere in russia and america and europe as a in the lead that will be the striving ski season what about the olympics will you be performing in london during the games well my hope is the world view of some of

the civil rights that i will be there myself in the closing ceremony and i think we will all hope for fantastic games on a personal russia all the world so you. you are pretty. active i mean socially politically recently recently you he were. put his presidential campaign why did you decide to to to give your popularity your name to to put his campaign it's really simple i think russia needs a strong leader rushing insulin for. my job well it's a little bit like orchestra choosing a conductor because the fate of orchestra or big corporate house very much depends on the minister i think even better than four years ago. to leave this complication of the economy better and maybe ever before. he will need a very strong team and that by far the most important question will be what would

be the team members especially key members when you we say we are of the same generation we when we see a strong leader we have second thoughts we have the history of that terry regime in russia when you say putin is a strong leader and you want him as a president don't you have anything years in second do you think do you think he has enough will and enough wit to keep not falling over the edge you know only i don't think he wants to be acting as a. leader who is really ready to. push too far. and make an impression that he is doing something that big big majority of people will not take very well i don't think so all the recent events in december. i thought showed that russia is growing

russia is changing but there was no blood most importantly there was no blood i don't think it was any harder on demonstrators than any other country you know myself. i myself hold very much that whatever happens on the streets it will be peaceful and things what it was peaceful so i think it's a big step forward for any country in the world to do it to have the most precious protestors but to make sure their bill lives hell for their well being absolutely not. and i think russia is moving and moving in the right direction that's my feeling but i am artist i'm not spending hours and hours myself on the streets even in some people's work and working actually i hope a lot of people with russia will do this just work quite hard that's why i'm interested in your opinion because there are plenty of problems issues that were

less easy to game for them but for you it's not a game it's a piece of sheet music is your world and this thing it's part of your world and the so this is why it's very important for me to know your point of view what do you think and many people say that artists should this isn't this the south from politics from power they should be out there in order not to lose not not to lose the love and devotion of the other people of different political views you think this is correct their absolute agree with this position i was in no way involved in any part of the you know last twenty years and now when i think it's appropriate to say a famous man you know i'm not the only subject once came to my house and he would have me to be. he not only joining the party which he wanted to form but also to be what you call in first three are you so you will acknowledge or one or two one or three i believe i was offered to be a number three. was all the respect them very politely

yeah i told scheme it was maybe one thousand nine hundred eighty three ninety four . and i had to tell him thank you so much i don't know but i think i have to do what i do conducting leading a marine ski and for me these totally important. young or old communist or nationalist so everyone who comes to the americans came for me are the most important public public and they are all equal to me if they want to hear trickle skill not sort of building all equal we have to work where we have to perform and sing. we have to deliver a very high quality and everyone who is in the auditorium he's equally important to us and to me personally as a leader oh last question about politics we saw many artists many of your

colleagues campaigning for this break why some say they did so to secure their projects here too is charities or movies or whatever do you think that art is so very much dependent on politics in russia is the reality of fear for example that their strategy to to survive is not only i will be very very honest. it's not maybe a very nice word to prostitute it's not what you're going to play through the actions of some of the really distinguished famous and i actually believe it's a give the people we're all grown enough to have an opinion i have very very firm game myself today no one is going to prepare for his job but you know what will happen in the four five six years you very much will depend on putting himself but i would create also at least team for example what mr cauldron will do . these informal finest work is not only for mark it's also the best one yet

it's very important throughout and i believe these questions are totally important also to many many artistic directionals but. when people i know my younger friend for example denise months who is a brilliant pianist he was here in this studio is this very very nice person like this he's also very smart he's very organized i don't think he has to do something special or something tricky he doesn't have to sell himself he's doing what he does brilliantly he's playing piano but also leading his generation. i don't think it's correct that i think it's smart and i don't think it's polite to think well if that's the use of force or maybe he needs something from putin i think it's a very very big mistake it's exactly what was done. thirty years ago. by the way i'm never very critical of everything what happened so you know of

course not for example the u.k. should system was quite strong quite british healthcare maybe arts the art of saudis lucic incredible really but when we were told don't listen to the words of america why. oh you can't because they're lies and telling lies but it's the same mistake what some somehow people repeat now if people today have their opinion and they say well i think i like this candidate oh no oh you have some interest so you maybe want to get some money it's some. kind of very special. and no. hope which you personally need if you just boise out that i like this candidate but not another one but maybe some people like this kind of because i think is the best candidate i myself happen to think that they. can not afford and experiment with someone who never let.

go of the chair of the president of the country especially in the world which many of now says why did he get to be a principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and direction how the muddiness keep it in st peter's satellite will be back shortly after a break so stay with us and. we'll do the. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.

welcome back to spotlight i am our love and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is valerie get the principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and director of the worrying ski theory. the annual easter festival easter music festival which which is your child your hero one of your beloved children it's opening this weekend so this is becoming like a world event when you found it you promised to remake the world world events is

the geography but increasing. first of all it's called more score is their first thoughts clearly indicates that it's a russian cultural group but be event starts in moscow traditionally and comes in and also will be consisting in between money's curious and also writing singers some of brilliance always instrumental is the violinist or kenny's such and it's. a visit many regions of russia every year and he's. given glee we go east so it will be appearing more you could tell him more which eleven score or more record bombs where they built and that's the whole by the way in arms very quickly rebuild it hope this time we go to more months which is part of your thinks it was a was

a congress that would go back to your and then moscow. yes we plan and then those are the performing here and great russian or but i'm sure not in kiev is a big project where we're going and we will go solve the rest of the border on your national goal to make us not the will go to slow votes probably the starr report to volgograd and then back to moscow you see we have many people where we are sometimes a thousand who are welcome i'm sure there will be a bold three hundred people it's a great great arsenal but i think it's going to be hopefully write a good beautiful little event as well and then a minimum hundred people should always me just to strive for this year's event you chance said the perkoff yes what well you've invested well jake or scheme we love his music. still need what you call more and more recognition because she is not

going to order of nutcracker or swan lake or fifth symphony or six symphony or many many other beautiful compositions but prokofiev stravinsky shows the college. a great great composers of twentieth century and russia some people don't even maybe understand how incredibly much russia was given the world through argument essentially and these three composers just for example stravinsky. just the group which nearly every week in my plans i know well i've noticed that your orchestra is playing more russian composers of the twentieth century stravinsky just. if you just mentioned the then then them for since you you you put you can't ski glynco world and i don't know traditionally well known is it where we started with is it because music for you isn't just business but it's their mission

you want to promote people that you think are. a little bit forgotten in some places you see a great composers they are able to worked at least twenty five thirty years maybe should get promoted were not so lucky in the beginning for that long but we do indeed five or forty or fifty years become probably what some of those pieces compositions become really things even verdi is more famous or porous and understatement so the truth of costly is that eventually cost us more famous. compositions i'm very. ingenuous hugely political so i mean ski years previous as well just because it's getting more and more popular but i'm looking at all life story of prokofiev and i find it important to play all his

symphonies or he's become a good chance to push a little bit upstaged from backstage to for the little girl very eve eve i am a soldier and my oldest with me of course my his cue you have these gates by his gurkhas there is a good strong army so we have to fight we're ready to fight who we defend we defend great composers of our nations for the first place and i think if you can be needs a good army to defend his music that is not an easter first so we call that easter first of all does it have any religious component any anything that will for example for you a lot of bills will sing with the most common for other sectors these days and for all the churches of moscow but also in many regions of russia will be opened for choral singing we will perform in the. great hall of conservatory in

moscow which is the best of the moscow but also performance and petersburg about when your whole body in ski will perform in many other cities i just mentioned them already and it will be a festivity i think. it is sacred music which makes it more close to the heart of simple people because everyone knows that you can go to the church and you will be very grateful also not only to blackness of the church and imus or of russian easter but also to the music which makes sense of stability even more beautiful so i think it's appropriate you have recently expressed your amazement the fact that most of the russian population are listening to cheek pop music that there are not enough what very few classical music in the air in the classical radio stations easy is it because you want to start or the

classical station or what you know i never speak against any music being. optimistic or. my sis mass culture so the last quarter may be ok but it may be junk you were talking about junk pop music and i we don't know what i mean we don't know it is this is some of it is just noise going but i will never do it speak against any music or do what i will do i will of course act and try to build more and more facilities and to create opportunities for classical music to go either way i don't think there is a crisis was question because of course comedic interruption i don't think you truly do you see a need did did you see a market because f. and i from station is a business is there a market for classical music in russia and a large scale not only among moscow's intelligentsia but i mean in in all the

cities you just mentioned i think. huge number of people who are in love or sort of school music i swear we will go to these things the halls will be full no one will force people to work their years marines he is famous years some people know my name but i think it's a love for music and people will expect something magical to happen something beautiful i'm not worried about what's going to get russia i'm not worried about a lack of interest i'm not worried about a lack of good taste now well here we can then we can improve. i think we can improve overall but this is the case with many many countries i don't think we are doing. badly i don't think but the country. can much better shape i don't think so for them immediately in the schools but isn't the whole subject of music. we have music in our school still i think not enough. you have

recently opened your musical school in western siberia this winter actually and the news is that the graduates of your school in siberia will get an opportunity to work with you in the marine skill therion same piece is it a unique project or the other project like that three words about it look it's a small project but every conductor should try to do something then to get there we will make a progress because and not possible even to think about ok there is one man and it will just change a thing we all have to sort of classical music and i think we don't have. we don't have to forget we a country of chikarovski comes through most of this is maybe not allowed it's a moral code no one tells me everything by the way you know you cannot forget you live in russia because you just it's for me like we can maybe michel really think

of the world things going on in russia my country it's so much of the world of music recently you staged my fair lady classical musical in the very insecure which are classical classical music here in st petersburg lots of people criticized you why did you do that i don't think people cruiser is me i think there were twelve performances. which means there is an interest in my fair lady is a beautiful story it's a little bit of cinderella story so much a love story in the world and in russia this is the replacement in the classical all of the other classical stage i mean putting putting in there the the the pomp i mean part well look i didn't do it instead of classical i did it on par with. what may be. my three magic some very important here mary is going for you to

perform more than seven hundred fifty times a year i would prefer not to comment fifty points seven hundred fifty but i'm saying here some sixty percent is. eve. five hundred fifteen dollars are in sync with what happened to congress i would cite it as a book and i would say russia as well for example was i'm not but performances so. don't want to be unique or recently geneva it was just the last fifteen days. that's good i think we mustn't doors without being officially part of the ministry of foreign affairs but we're cultural ambassadors i find it very appropriate again and i find it was a big corner because my distance was wearing ski he's full of many many events and my for ladies just one of very many events you know as a leader i plan on writing things and program so the company works no one can argue

that money is good. but of course they're performing under-achiever underachiever but i don't think you can apply to marines can bulk of one production is brilliant the other one is maybe less brilliant with regret but no unified one director being whether or not a director in my course designer said designer and then you hope but it goes well and then after the premier you say well that was great this was well i hope you you you you always have this fire in your eyes because i see it now and as long as you do it as long as you had if you can do whatever you want to love you have for thank you thank you very much for being with us and there's a reminder that my guest today was the principal conductor of the london simply workers truck and director of the marines here in st petersburg and that's it for now for more serious part life will be back with more and comment on what's going on outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take a. long

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