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Vladimir Jurowski

lines on the record: 36
first: 2007-08-19
most recent: 2007-08-19
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Well, since you graciously gave me the complete works of Shakespeare, I don't feel it would be cheat if I say I want another complete works. of Pushkin.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well funny we're talking about the lifetime task which is never fulfilled it's the only Russian piece of music I chosen it's Tchaikovsky Symphony number six here conducted by Yevgeny Marvinsky and played by Lily Lingrath Philamonik. Yevgeny Marvinsky served with the Leningrad Philamonic for over fifty years and the recording which I chose is the last existing recording of his which is nineteen eighty two I think for me Morvinsky is this symbol of the lifelong dedication to one high spiritual task and even in this last performance he still would have things to develop and to criticise on himself.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, this is where my roots lie in, although this place literally doesn't exist anymore, but it does exist in my memories, and I've taken a lot from there, and probably the most important thing I've taken from there that the journey is never over. I don't know what else is going to happen on my way, I'm sure many more unexpected and exciting and interesting things, but I feel I'm open and prepared for anything to happen.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you are the servant of this bigger machine, which is the theatre. I mean, if I were a guest conductor somewhere, I would have cancelled without any hesitation, but it was my company, and I was part of it, but it was a difficult one”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well he had a hard talk conducting in Berlin he collapsed at the volume and was dead clinically dead for a couple of minutes I was in Berlin too and I came to the theatre as soon as I could and he was put in an artificial coma so he was saved but we didn't know whether he would wake up or not and the next day I had a performance at the comper which I couldn't cancel it was La Bem. So that was quite memorable evening for me.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I at times succeed in making him proud. But it stopped being a warrior of mine, because we have our own goals and aims to pursue, and in order to discover Minor had also to sort of get a step back from him.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He does whenever he can it's always a very special night for me whenever he is in the audience because I always feel exposed apart from the usual stress to the additional very very critical couple of ears and couple of eyes”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a piece I connect a lot of personal memories with when I moved to Germany. That was one of the first pieces I heard its Arvoz double concerto or two violins called Tabulasa. It's a very spiritual, very simple music, but it has an incredible depth to it, and actually the more you listen to it, the more complexity you discover.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well not often enough I still feel myself to be part of this old system, although I only grasp it maybe one of the last flashes of it, but I still feel belonging to this big tradition, and I have in a way enriched this tradition by blending it together with the German and British culture which I also absorbed, and while I'm trying to convey to them the fruits.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think there are two sides to it one side is this, and obviously this is something which is extremely exotic for somebody who comes from outside the English cultural world, you know, dinner jackets and evening dresses and dinners on the lawn. It's not a real high society. I mean, some of them are, but a lot of people, you know, save money for the whole year just to be able to go and have a night out in the most potent and flamboyant way. And I find this absolutely acceptable.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do feel it and I'm more than comfortable in being on the margins. Actually, I think this is what makes us develop further, is exposing ourselves to next challenges and also stripping away the comfortable.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I thought there must be at least one disc with piano songs only, and obviously the paradigm of European art song is Schubert and Divinterise, it's Dietrich Discow and Gerald Moore on the piano, again a paradigmatic couple. Fisher Discow used to collaborate a lot with the Swatoslav Richte. I was lucky enough to meet him in Germany and even accompany singers in his master classes. So this is one of the most important musical personalities in my personal development.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Professional explosion. For this I was very much a Russian in that I believed in fate, and I still do, so I thought if it is coming this way then it must be true, and it must be necessary.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes and no yes because our daughter was born two weeks after I came back from my Wexford debut so when we planned her we didn't we never planned it when we made her I didn't have even the slightest prospect of any career with still a student so Wexford came very much last minute and from the schedule it looked as though we could make it. That's”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Berlin was this amazing mixture of completely incompatible cultures this very, very east and the most hilarious frantic west because West Berlin in a way was more western than the whole of Western Germany together. But West Berlin, the island in the Red Sea is gone, this is past now. But I found Berlin extremely exciting, much more exciting, let's say, than Dresden.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was hard to call it west what we found in Germany because we came to Dresden, which was deep inside eastern Germany. It was only when I moved to Berlin I was exposed much more to the western field.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because of the grandmothers they objected they said they wouldn't leave the graves of their husbands, and my parents were not strong enough to take the decision and leave without them. So they stayed, and in a way it was a good thing, at least for me and for my sister and my brother because we grew up the way we grew up we would have been different people”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, of course, the letter is more correct. Also, they wanted to live already many years ago. I simply wasn't aware of it. They were in the brink of leaving the country back in seventy four when I was only two years old.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's Niklaus Hanunku again, but this time it's Malt. Actually, the one piece by Mozart which I would have taken with me to the desert island is the magic flute, but there is not a single recording of the piece which would be entirely to my satisfaction, and Requiem was written around the same time. It's one of the latest works and definitely one of the most mature enigmatic and wonderful works of his.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you have to know which egos are important part of the music making and which egos can be sort of blended into the whole”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I know is that by then there was definitely no competition. I never thought I would ever be as good as my father. So I felt if I were going to be half as good as him, I'd be very happy.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the tears were before whenever I had the piano lessons with him as a child it always ended in tears, but by the time I started having conducting lessons with him I was already eighteen, and I was very determined, so I was already a different kind of a son, and he started seeing in me somewhat of an equal”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“difficult. He is a very good teacher but a very, very demanding one, and he wouldn't forgive anything quite understandably.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think he was relieved to see that this wish of mine was based upon some talent I possessed, some basic skills, and I think that was a very Soviet thing because there were a lot of sons of famous fathers who succeeded without having any talent. And so he gave me immediately some advisers and also my first lessons I got from him.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“with excitement, and doing this simply by the means of music, and it was not about his personal success as a conductor, it was the effect of his music making, which was so unique and so emotionally charging. So I chose Lernard Bernston conducting, the Vienna Philomonic yet again and its Adagieto from Malus five.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yes, I was already at college and I heard the symphony number five, and it was like a whole new world opened itself in front of me and all the things I always felt inside me on the emotional level also on the intellectual level I somehow felt I understand every note of this music intuitively and even what's between the notes and I couldn't explain it and there was another experience around the same time when I heard and saw Leonard Bernstein performing live in Moscow. That was also one of the cases where I thought if somebody is able to communicate the music in such a way to hold hundreds of people completely still and then shaking”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think Beethoven's seventh is one of the most joyous works ever written in the European music tradition. It's a mixture between some kind of a very austere procession like ritual dance, maybe funeral procession. It's definitely a tragic piece of music, but it still fills you with the joy for being alive and being able to listen to this music and I think Klyber and the Vienna Philamoni convey this emotion more and better than anybody else I know.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, of course, and I remember after a while when my ears got rather sensitive to what was going on, in the pit as well, I did notice all of the mistakes musicians were making, and it always made me incredibly nervous because I always thought my gosh, this guy makes a mistake and they will all blame my father. And I also remember wondering how does my father memorize all this various conducting movements because I was convinced that he really learned all of his movements by heart.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was everything, it was the colors, the smells, and the excitement. It is like a permanent Christmas, being in the theatre.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My father took me along to some of his rehearsals, so sometimes I was allowed to sit in the pit just behind or between the musicians, but I was to be honest much more interested in what was going on on stage, saying”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes. But, you know, compared to the apartment where I was born and where my sister was born, which was a two room apartment, the three room apartment was huge, and”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“the sound was unstoppable because he would bring singers home and they would practice till late at night. We had very, very patient neighbors, I must say.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bach's Goldberg variations with Glengold his second recording of it from nineteen eighty one because as you know Gold recorded the piece twice in the studio, once in nineteen fifty five, and then shortly before he died in eighty one, and these two recordings are separated by light years because in the first one you see a highly gifted young musician storming into his first bach, and the second one is a work of a mature genius its eternity.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I didn't turn all of them, but I did turn down some Mr. Well, most of those I wasn't sure about I turned down fors from Covent Garden. I mean, I went there in the first place to stand in last minute and did Nabucco. And it sort of went well as well as it could go under the circumstances, but I realized the higher you climb, the higher the danger to fall down and break your neck. So I started saying no because I wasn't ready, and I also never envisaged the profession of a conductor in order to become a star.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, music was the air I used to breathe, and I could never have thought back then and as I can't think now my life without music.”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think the chance was always there and in a way I also got encouraged by my father not to take on music because he was once told by his father if you can do something else then do something else because it must be like a disease”
2007-08-19 · Desert Island Discs · Vladimir Jurowski · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source