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which teheran denies. and voting for villains the indian election citizens choosing between alleged murderers and mafia fraud serves as thought a fifth of candidates taking part in sunday's call in new delhi after a criminal past. now on our spotlight captures russia's cultural zeitgeist. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on politics algorithm although today my guest in the studio is violating a name that sells itself. the most celebrated russian conductor in the world money riggin give got his first. taste of international recognition

a big age of twenty three when he won the major herbut phone carry on the wording early again gives emotional expression and the 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 office trends since ninety nine to six he has been the general director of the mariinsky theatre in st petersburg and since two thousand and seven principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra caregiving the open eyes are of several major international musical spectaculars on the band's most notably the white knight bastable in st petersburg and moscow is east of faster 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 when the two thousand and eight

words alpha said yeah he came to the team vault and conducted a concert near the ruin column and building in memory of those who died in the congo. i. want to give a welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today. first of all i would like to ask. you different things you do so many things in your life except music i'll use lots of things along with music so music for you is a trait

a business or a mission. can you choose one of three as if modern world. but . it doesn't really matter if i am moscow or new york if i am was music if i was orchestrate i was a singer as was a chorus is well 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 and more pleasant to go to some places smaller towns are wonderful music lovers are always eager i think there are always waiting for really important musical events and that's where my heart tells me i have to go more and more often you conducted. verdi's requiem with memory of your construct at london this year you also are the principal conductor of the london symphony

orchestra so what are you preparing for this year since something interesting i just came from london there was just three days ago four days ago we perform to a very long over a beautiful bit of a kind of argument. and if it was correct feel very good so that was very recently on my next to return visit to london is in may it will be totally dedicated to russian composer stravinsky yugoslavians he is arguably the most famous composer of thank you century yeah maybe one of the absolutely most important musicians of the century and i am always on the road to just conduct his music everywhere in russia in america and europe are so late in the lead there will be the starving ski season so what about the olympics will you be performing in london during the games where my orchestra will be involved some of the seven

august i will give them myself for the closing ceremony and i think we will all hope for fantastic games and i personally hope also rushed. all the world so you hear you are pretty. active i mean socially politically recently recently you you. endorsed potence presidential campaign why did you decide to to to give your popularity a name to to put his campaign it's very simple i think russia needs a strong leader it's a little horse of a job well it's a little bit like orchestra choosing conductor because the fate of mr big corporate house very much depends on the leadership i think even better than four years ago how to lead this country king of the economy better than maybe ever before and he will meet like me very strong team and the by far the most

important question will be with me the team members especially key members but we say we are of the same generation me when we see a strong leader we have second thoughts we have the history of that little italian regime in russia when you say putin is a strong leader and you want him as a christian and didn't she have any theism in second thoughts do you think do you think he has enough will you know what to keep not falling over the edge you know what i mean i don't think he wants to be acting as a. leader who is really ready to. push too far. and make an impression he is doing something what a big big majority of people will not take very well i don't think so all the recent events in december. i thought show 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 any other country i know myself. i myself hold very much that what 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 demonstrations protestors but to make sure that their lives hell for their well being absolutely not. and i think russia is moving and moving in the right direction but it's my feeling i'm artist i'm not spending hours and hours myself on the streets even in st petersburg and working actually i hope a lot of people of russia will do the same just work quite hard that's why i'm interested in your opinion because the opinion of politicians are more or less easy

to game for them but for you it's not a game it's a piece of sheet music is no world and this thing it's part of your world of this 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 is the south from politics from power they should be out there out in order not to lose not not to lose the love and devotion of the other people of different political views do you think this is correct i absolutely agree with this position i was in. in any team in the last twenty years and i think it's appropriate to say i think. on that 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 the first three are you so you will that number one or two one or three i believe i was

offered to be a number three. was all the respect and very politely pretty cool yeah i told him it was maybe nineteen thousand three hundred eighty 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 an aging american skier and for me these totally important. young or old communists or nationalists so everyone who got the americans came for me are the most important public public and they are all equal to me if you want to hear the trickle of skill that's sort of the hunger of the dean they're all equal we have to work where we have to perform sing dance 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 a last question about politics we saw many artists many of your colleagues

campaigning for this break why so some say they do so to secure their projects here through his charities and movies whatever do you think that arts are very much dependent on politics in russia is the reality of fear for example the best strategy to survive as an artist i will be very very honest. it's not very nice want to prosecute but it's not what you can apply to all the actions of some of the really distinguished famous and actually give the people we're all grown enough to have opinions i have very very firm opinion myself today no one is better prepared for his job than look him up which is what will happen in the four five six years you know very much will depend on putting himself but i repeat what he's doing for example what mr caudle. these are former finest was not only for more

it's also the best of it yes it's very important to us and i believe these questions are totally important also to many many artists the next roles but. when people i don't know my younger friend for example denise matsui is a brilliant pianist he was here in this studio is very very nice person i think 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 and i think it's smart and i think it's more like to think well if what's the use of force or maybe he needs something from put it 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 you know of course not always

i would you creation system was quite strong quite brilliant health care mainly farce the art was always a little sick of growth really but when we were told don't listen to the voice of america why. oh you can't because the realize that telling lies that's that's the same mistake what some somehow people repeat if people today have their opinion and they say well i think i like this candidate oh no oh you have some interest or you maybe want to get some money or want to get some. kind of very special. you know. which you personally need if you just boys out there i like the skinny but not otherwise but maybe some people like this kind of because i think it's the best company i myself happen to think of it could be russia cannot afford an experiment with someone from never let.

go of the chair of the president of the country especially in the world which would have no says the principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and direction the muddiness keep you know the same people like will be back through three after a break so stay with us and. good luck for a jury. to believe in its most sophisticated robot which. doesn't join the sound anything jim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the.

welcome back to spotlight i'm just a reminder that my guest on the show today is very good gift principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and director of the marines key theater. 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 here when you found it you promised you wouldn't make it

a world world event is the geography increasing. first of all it's called morse code is their first though it's clearly very because it's a russian cultural group but the event starts in moscow tradition and comes from there and also was a big concert in moscow in between my knees curious and also living singers some of brilliance always instrumental is the violinist or play any such and it's. visit many regions of russia every year. because we could be vertically we go east so it will be appearing more you could fill in more of what you learned in school or in work or where they built this technique when arms but it quickly build that whole this time we go into more months which is popular thinks it was a was a congress but we go back to your slot and in moscow you. yes we plan and

then those who performing here and great russian or political bunch you know in here is a big project where we're going and we will go south through the rest of what will go to go to class that will go to peace lovat's probably to start reporting to volgograd and then back to moscow you see we how many people take will sometimes the thousand will govern china will be a bowl three hundred people it's a great great arsenal but i think i mean it's going to be hopefully a way to get beautiful beautiful event as well and then a minimum hundred people to always me just. right for this year's event you just said keep records yes what were you think this time well check or scheme i will love and his music. still need what you call more and more equal

missions because he's not only order of not critical or swan lake or fifth symphony or six symphony but many many other beautiful i was initially but prokofiev stravinsky shostakovich. the great great composers of the twentieth century and russia some people don't even maybe i missed them how incredibly much russia was leading the world for i would like to century and these three composers just for example story in skin coffee shops the coalition nearly every week in my plans i know well i've noticed that your orchestra is playing more russian composer of the twentieth century stravinsky just. if you just mention the then then there were since you you you poor and she cos he. and ed and other traditionally well known is it what we started with is it because music theory

isn't just businessmen it's a mission you want to promote people that you think are. a little bit forgotten in some places is it a great composers they are able to work at least twenty five thirty years maybe sugarplum are sort of not so lucky could you believe that a lot but when twenty five or forty or fifty years the composer what some of those pieces compositions become very things even verdi has more famous opera and understands so the truth of course again is that eventually cause chaos more famous. compositions and then there's the obvious well gee cause in general as huge an improbable sort of means came years as well so that was getting more and more popular but i'm looking at all life story of proclivities and i find it important

duty to play all his symphonies all his mother got to push a little bit upstaged from backstage to for the very eve eve i am a soldier and my organist with me of course my his cue is this case where is the orchestra is a good is a good strong army so we have to fight we're ready to fight we defend we different great composers of our missions in the first place and i think of you today needs a good army to defend his music because when easter fester we call that easter first though does it have any religious component any anything they do well for example for you a lot of bills will same good for most going for the seniors base days and for all the churches that moscow but also in many regions of russia will be old with full choral singing we will perform in the. great hall of conservatory in

moscow which is the best hall in moscow but also perform and some people's program when you're hauling wearing ski will perform in many other cities or just mentioned them already and it will be the first stupidity i think. it is sacred music which makes it a little bit more close to the heart of simple people because everyone knows that if you go to the george then you will be very grateful. not only to but most of the church and i'm sort of russian history but also to the music which makes this statement to me even more beautiful i think it's appropriate you have recently expressed your amazement the fact that most of the russian population are listening to too cheap pop music there are not enough what very few classical music in the air and the classical radio stations easy because you want to start or the

classical station or what you know i never speak against any music being cheap and i'm sick of pop music or. my sis mass culture so who must go to me be ok with it maybe junk you were talking about junk pop music i don't even know what i mean there isn't something we don't know yet this is some of it is just noise but but i will never do it speak against any music but 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 i by the way i don't think there is a christmas question because of course going to corrosion i don't think you truly do you see a need did you see a market because f. and the from station is a business is there a market for classical music in russia either large scale not only among moscow's intelligentsia but i mean in in all those cities you just mentioned i think there

is a. huge number of people who are in love as was screaming i swear we will go to these things see this horse will be full no one will force people to have it years marines he is famous years some people normally name but i think it's a love for music and people will expect something magical to happen something beautiful i am not worried about classical music and russian i'm not worried about own lack of interest i'm not worried about good taste well here we can i think we can improve i think we can improve over all but this is the case with many many countries i don't think we are doing. badly i don't think of a country. in much better shape i don't think so for example you need only in the schools there is no subject of music. we have music and i was still going to 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 marines keep hearing same piece is a unique project that a project like that with a few words about it it's a small project but every conductor should try to do something small then all together we will make a progress because and not possible even to think that there is one man and he will just change everything we all have to sort of course school music and i think we got hit with we don't have to forget we are country of czerkawski country and was so skinny this is maybe not a lot it's a moral code no one tells me everything by the way you you cannot forget you live in russia country just it's for me. i may be made surely think of.

things going. in russia and my country if so much of the world of music recently you staged my fairly classical musical in the very insecure which are classical classical music here in st petersburg where lots of people criticized you why did you do that i don't think people who use those mean i think they work for performances. which means there is an interest my fair lady is a beautiful story it's a little bit of cinderella story and so much love story in the world and in russia that is a good replacement in the classical of other classical stage i mean putting putting in the the the pomp i mean you're there in pop well i didn't do it instead of course people really did it on top with. me. and i think my take some very important here if you are performs more than seven hundred fifty

times a year i repeat i'm not two hundred fifty seven hundred fifty i'm saying it seven sixty to be precise. eve. five hundred fifteen dollars participate in the book and two hundred outside. and outside russia as well for example recently about the performance in so the mechanic of the folklore and circuit board munich the recently geneva that was just last few days. that's good i think we are. without being officially part of the minister of foreign affairs but we are cultural ambassadors i find it very appropriate again and i find it also back on the because my distance was wearing ski is full of many many events and my fair lady is just one of many events i'm not is a leader i apply i'm right in concert program so the company works and no one can

accuse me of being lazy being caught under perform an underachiever underachiever i don't think you can apply to marine ski. one production is brilliant another one is maybe less brilliant would regret but you know you know right one director when he went on the other director you might cause him designer designer and then you hope it goes well and then after bringuier say well that was great this was maybe a little bit less i hope you you you you always have this fire and you're right because i see it now and as long as you do it as long as you have if you can do whatever going to be having fun thank you thank you very much for being what it can be just a reminder that my guest today was probably the principal conductor of the lot of them so he was truck and director of the muddiness here in st petersburg and that's opened up the world here spotlight will be back with more on politics and what's going on outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take a.