i'm. here with r t a line from moscow our top stories the u.n. security council has unanimously passed a resolution on syria which outlines the next observer mission in the country that's amid reports that syria's friends out cease fire has been disrupted by further deadly clashes antigovernment rallies are being hijacked by rebels. after more than a year of silence and suspicion world powers hold nuclear talks with iran in turkey iran insists its atomic program is peaceful iraq obama called the talks the launch

challenge for diplomacy to work with israel threatening military action. and the people of new delhi are said to vote in regional elections but it could end up being a choice between alleged murder earth and fraudsters a fifth of the candidates are standing for office despite dubious. you know in our cities probably like russia's cultural that ties. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview on parts of album love and today my guest in the studio is. a name that sells itself. the most celebrated russian conductor in the world by les regear given got his

first taste of international recognition at the age of twenty three when he won the major herbert funk carry on the word in early 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 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 caregivers the ogunnaike there of several major international musical spectaculars on the band's most notably the white knight trustable and say it is birth in most cases east of fasting one of the foremost international conductors of all time caregiver has never been shy to react to major world issues especially those concerning his native caucasus after the two thousand and four baseline school massacre he conducted

a series of concerts usually get to the victims following the two thousand and eight war itself and said yeah he came to conduct a concert near the ruins column and building in memory of those who died in the conflict. i. i i i i. come up with a good idea for welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today my pleasure. 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 for you is in a treat a business or admission. can you choose one hundred three because it is my world and i saw him ordering. about. it doesn't really matter if the mosque or new york before him was a music event was orchestrated i was a singer as was a chorus is what i know what i have to do i think and. it is also important for me to say that. moscow or new york are big big cities but i find it more and more pleasant to go to listen on places smaller towns are wonderful music lovers. always good i think they're almost 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 for verdi's requiem with the marine corps

construct 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 interesting i just came from london there was just three days ago four days ago we performed to a very long order a beautiful girl very kind of. and famous correct for him verdi so it was very recently and my makes the return visit to london is in may it will be totally dedicated to russian composer stravinsky yugoslavians king is give me the most famous composer of french of century and 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 in europe they elected will be the starting ski season and one of the olympics will you be performing in london during the

games well my older sister will be one of the seven or it's that i will give them myself in the closing ceremony and i think we'll all hope for fantastic game so i personally hope so russia will do well so you. you are pretty. active i mean socially politically recently recently you you were. put in this presidential campaign why did you decide to to to give your popularity your name to to put this campaign it's very simple i think russia needs a strong leader brushing his signature on the horse joke well it's a little bit like orchestra choosing conductor because the fate of orchestra or big corporate house very much depends on the mothership i think you know better than four years ago how to lead this country you know the economy better than maybe ever before and he will meet me very strong team and

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 usually when we see a strong leader we have second thoughts we have the history of very regime in russia when you say putin is a strong leader and you want him as a president xi have any theories in second thoughts do you think do you think he has enough well enough wit 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 through all far. and make an impression that he is doing something what 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 in any other country and on myself. i myself hope for miles that whatever happens on the streets it will be peaceful and things that 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 their lives hell for their well being absolutely not. and i think russia is moving and moving in the right direction that's my feeling i'm artist i'm not spending hours and hours myself on the streets for you going inside did his work and work and actually i hope a lot of people of russia will do this they just work quite hard that's why i'm

interested in your opinion because there are plenty of politicians that more or less easy it's a game for them but for you it's not a game it's a piece of music is your world and this thing it's part of your world is this so 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 south from politics or 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 absolutely agree with this position i was in no way involved in any power to me you know last twenty years and 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 wanted me to be. he not only joining the party which he wanted to form but also to be what you call the me first three years so you well it's number one or do one or three

i believe i was offered to be a number three. was all respect and very politely critical yeah i told scheme it was maybe nine hundred ninety three ninety four and i had to tell him well thank you so much i'm very honored but i think i have to know what i do conducting leading a marine ski and for me it is totally important. young or old communists or nationalists everyone who got from americans came from me the most important public public and they are all equal to me if you want to hear jerk off your mouth sort of like there are a very deep very equal we have to work too well we have to perform same dance we have to go to a very high quality and everyone who has an auditorium is equally important to us and to member of the meter oh last question about politics we saw many artists many

of your colleagues campaigning for this break why so some say they did so to secure their projects here to these charities all movies whatever do you think that arts is so very much dependent on politics in russia is all yellow to a feeder for example the best strategy to survive as an artist i will be very very honest. it's not very nice with a prostitute it's not what you can apply to the actions of some of the really distinguished famous and actually good for gifted people we're all grown enough to have opinions i have a very very firm game itself today no one is but the program for his job i'm looking approaching what will happen in four five six years it's very much will depend on putting himself but also his team for example what mr cauldron will do.

these informal finest work is not only for more it's also the best we've heard yet it's very important and i believe these questions are totally important also to many many artists or intellectuals but. but people i know my younger friend for example the nice matsuda is a brilliant pianist he was here in this studio he's 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 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 figures polite to think well if you support maybe something from i think it's a very very big mistake but it's exactly what was done. thirty years ago.

by the way i never very critical of everything what's happening so you wouldn't of course not for example your creation system was quite strong quite brilliant health care i mean if arts the art was are these really really but when we were told don't listen to the voice of america why. oh you can't because the realize they're telling lies. 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 i want to get some. kind of very special. you know. what you personally need if you just walk out that i like this like me but not another one but maybe some people like this kind of because i think it's the best in it and i myself happen to think what to do is russia cannot afford an

experiment with someone who never let anything. jump to the chair of the president of the country especially in the world which we have now says principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and director of the muddiness here peter it's a good life we'll be back after a break so stay with us. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't. charge welcome to the big picture.

world. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. welcome back to spotlight i'm just a reminder that my guest on the show today is the only give principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and director of the marine ski theatre. the annual easter festival easter music festival which which is your child your one of your beloved children it's opening this weekend so this is becoming like a world event you when you found it you promised you would make it

a world world event it is the geography the increasing first of all it's called moscow is the first the world's clearly indicates that it's a russian cultural group but to be event starts in moscow traditionally concert and also with the because it's impossible in between my knees . so letting singers some of brilliance always instrumentalists the pile in his plan is such an it's. a visit many regions of russia every year with his. could be eventually we go east so it will be perry more you can tell him more which a global score or a more record will be built on testing in whole by the way in arms very quickly rebuild it hope this time we go into more months which is part of the our thanks but as of was our congress when we go back to the lowest level and then moscow. yes

we learn yet intend also to perform in kiev a great russian or political one china in kiev is a big project we're going in and we will go solve the rest of what we know to border on us will go to take us down there are will go to slow votes can probably. to start report to volgograd and then back to moscow you see really how many people will sometimes a thousand will cover i'm sure there will be about three hundred people it's a great great russian novel and i think it's going to be hopefully quite a good beautiful little event as well and then a minimum hundred people to always me just to strive for this year's advance you chose so give perkoff yes what why investors well check or scheme we love his music still need what you call more and more

a commission because of course he's not the only author of not critic or swan lake or symphony or successfully but many many other beautiful and causations but prokofiev stravinsky assures the college are great great composers of twentieth century and russia some people don't even maybe understand how incredibly much russia was given the world frogland expansion and these three composers just for example so you can skin off your source the code 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 poor and she cost well and had it on a traditionally well known but is it what we started with is it because music for

you isn't just business but it's a mission you want to promote people that you think are. a little bit forgotten in some places is it great composers are very are able to work. at least twenty five years maybe it should not matter we're not so lucky and the meaning of the law but when twenty five thirty or forty or fifty years they compose or not some of those pieces compositions become very things even though the thing is more famous author of the numbers famous and so the truth which of course king is that eventually cost us more famous compositions i'm going vestibules. in general is huge in political means key years brooke obvious as well just because it's getting more and more popular but i'm looking that all life story of

proportion if and i find it important duty to play all his symphonies or his brother can just push a little bit upstaged from backstage to for the. eve eve i am a soldier. in my organs that was me of course he had this case where his girlfriend is a good so good strong army so we have to fight we're ready to fight who we defend and different great composers of our nations in the first place and i think of you can be needs a good army to defend his music. easter first so we call that easter first though does it have any religious component any any think the wealth was ever free a lot of bills will sing for mosque and for the singers this days and that all the georgists of moscow but also in many regions of russia will be open for all choral singing we will perform in the. great hall of conservatory in moscow which is the

best of them go but also will perform in some people's work and when you're holding the will perform in many other cities i just mentioned them already and it will be the festivities i think. it is sacred music which makes it a little more close to the heart of simple people because everyone knows that if you go to church and you will be very grateful also not only to the most early church and under center of russian history but also to the music which makes this stimulating 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 cheap pop music that there are not enough what very few classical music here in the classical radio stations easy is it because you want to start

a classical station or what you know i never speak against any music being cheap as you call pop music or. mice master 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 personally and it will annoy me this is some of it is just noise but but i will never do it speak against caning music what i will do i will of course act and try to build more and more facilities and create opportunities for quest good music too i by the way i don't think there is a crisis was questioned cloak or school music in russia i don't think you truly do you see a need did you see a market because f.m. a different station is a business is there a market for classical music in russia a large scale not only among moscow's intelligentsia but i mean in all the cities

you just mentioned i think there is a. huge number of people who are you know novice law school music i swear we will go to these tent cities the horse will be full no one will force people to have it yes mary's 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'm not worried about what's going to get russian i'm not worried about what i like or fit into as they're not worried about what the good taste well here we can are 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 how the country is in much better shape i don't think so for living in the only in the schools there is no subject of music. we have because you can i was cool still 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 q therion same piece is it a unique project or the other project like that we would look it's a small project but every conductor should try to do some things well then all together we will make good progress because i'm not possible even to think that ok there is one man and he will just change everything we all have to sort of classical music and i think we're going to have. we don't have to forget we're country after a costly country and muslims think this is not allowed it's a moral called no one told me everything by the way you cannot forget you live in russia country because and just it's for me. maybe michel really think of world

things going. in russia and my country because so much in the world of music recently you staged a fairly 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 whose there is me i think there were thought performances. which means there is an interest my fair lady has a beautiful story it's a little bit of cinderella story it's a much loved story in the world and in russia this is the replacement in the classical art of other classical stage i mean putting putting in the the the pump i mean you're going pop i didn't do it instead of classical well you did it on top with. what maybe. i might imagine except very important here if you go to a performance more than seven hundred fifty times

a year i would prefer not to comment fifty times seven hundred fifty times a year so when sixty to be precise. we've. five hundred fifty dollars power in sync and two hundred outside of his book and i was a big rush as well for example gruesome about the performance of so let me get my car a different car in sort of dortmund or munich the recently geneva that was just the last fifteen days. that's good i think. 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 also because i know because my distance was korean ski he's full of many many events and my fair lady is just one of the very minute offense not as a leader i plan on writing conceive program so the company works and no one can

accuse marines give me more lazy of being called underperforming underachiever underachiever i don't think it would apply to marines. one production is brilliant another one is maybe less brilliant would regret but i know you know right one director went to another director with my costume designer designer and then you hope but it goes well and then after the premier will say well that was great this was baby. i hope you you you you always have this fire and you're on because i see it now and as long as you do it as long as you have it you can do whatever you want as long as you have fun thank you thank you very much for being what it was just a reminder that my yesterday was. principal conductor of the london symphony orchestra and director of the muddiness here in st petersburg and that's it for now from all of us here is what life will be back with more and comments on what's going on outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take a.