Gregor Tassie: 3 books
Nikolay Myaskovsky
The Conscience of Russian Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as “one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music.” Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popularity and were performed by all major American and European orchestras; they were some of the most inspiring symphonic...
Kirill Kondrashin
His Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Kirill Kondrashin is regarded as one of the most brilliant Russian conductors of the 20th century and a great interpreter of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler. In Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music, Gregor Tassie presents a full biography of the artist, from his humble background...
Yevgeny Mravinsky
The Noble Conductor
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
The last of a long line of distinguished Russian aristocrats, Yevgeny Mravinsky emerges from the 20th Century musical scene as a noble conductor and exceptional treasure of Soviet culture. His friendship of some forty years with Dmitri Shostakovich led to the opening of that composer's music to the...