Nota. The Life of Rudolf Barshai as Told by Him in Oleg Dorman's Film

10 hrs. 39 min.

Language Russian

Author Oleg Dorman

Narrator Elena Soboleva

Description

Rudolf Barshai belonged to the constellation of great musicians of the 20th century. The Moscow Chamber Orchestra he founded in the late 1950s won audiences around the world. The orchestra’s regular partners included Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and Emil Gilels. At the height of his career, in 1977, Barshai went to the West to perform works that had been banned in the USSR. He conducted orchestras in Israel and the United Kingdom, Canada and France, Switzerland and Japan. In the twilight of his life, in Switzerland, in front of the camera of film director Oleg Dorman, Barshai recalls his wandering childhood, his youth during the war years, love and loss, his legendary teachers and friends and colleagues—D. Shostakovich, I. Menuhin, M. Rostropovich, I. Stravinsky—along with the difficulties of emigration and the happy decades of free творчеству.
The book was created based on the documentary film “Note,” shot in 2010 by Oleg Dorman, author of “Subtext,” and it presents the maestro’s confessional monologue one month before his death.