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The Note: A lifelong quest for one single note

Barshai, Rudolf

DVD Producer: Dorman, Oleg

DVD Producer: Dektor, Felix

Television Director: Dorman, Oleg

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Actor: Barshai, Rudolf

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Year of Production: 2013

Playing Time: 01:30:01

Catalogue Number: EuroArts5952

UPC: 880242595287

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The conductor Rudolf Barshai was one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century. The Moscow Chamber Orchestra founded by Barshai in the late 1950s took the world by storm. Among the orchestra's collaborators were Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, Emil Gilels, Yehudi Menuhin. In 1977, at the peak of his career, Barshai emigrated to the West to perform works banned in the USSR. He led orchestras in Israel, Britain, Canada, France, Switzerland, and Japan. A master of orchestration, whom Shostakovich ?EUR" his mentor and friend ?EUR" trusted to arrange his quartets into chamber symphonies. Barshai considered his greatest achievements in life the ending to Bach's Art of Fugue and a version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony. The film, shot in Switzerland in 2010, is the maestro's confessional monologue, recorded a month before his death.