and glinka prokofiev from travinsky. worthy it's not necessary to fly to chile or australia for thisew, we are recording in the interval between concerts maestro gets up early and stays up late easter festival - it's also a test of endurance. it's now two o'clock in the morning , the mariinsky theater orchestra has played the seventeenth and eighteenth concerts out of 36 over the past 24 hours. two more performances await them. valery gergiev sets the pace for his orchestra. at 70, gergiev has achieved so much that it is difficult to fit in one human life, he returned the imperial brilliance to the name and world influence of the mariinsky theater, he brought a whole constellation of performers to the stage and revived glory to russian composers. he reminded me that there are not only tchaikovsky rachmaninov but also the borodins of the roman-korsakovs. he circled the earth many times, performing with the most famous bands, he could give a concert in one day in in new york and irkutsk, it seems gergiev never sleeps at all. he is able to be simultaneously in different places in differ