To me it’s his greatest performance, it leaves me in tears every time, and I’ve heard a lot of versions but none have the effect like this on me. I think it’s his timing and control of the orchestra, you really feel it with him, it’s honestly so amazing. I’m so happy that this is online because this was before my time and I’ve had no chance to witness it live!
This is a great performance of this scintillating music. It's a great shame that fantastic music making is being spoilt by one-sided politics and that Gergiev et al are being cancelled or threatened. I will not take sides regarding the war in Ukraine, but I do not want to see great musicians thrown overboard because of real tensions between Russia and Ukrainian forces. Let the music speak, not politics.
While the Russian forces approach the great gate of Kiev, Gergiev refuses to abandon Putin. He is now banished from most orchestra's in the world and the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam that existed for 26 years is abolished. A great musician ends his career in shame.
This music has nothing to do with Ukraine. Mussorgsky wrote "Pictures at an Exhibition" in memory of his friend, the architect Hartmann. The final part of the cycle is based on Hartmann's sketch for his architectural project of the city gate in honor of the Russian tsar Alexander II. The gates wanted to be installed in Kiev, but the project was not implemented)) Gergiev is a wonderful conductor and an honest man. The mayor of Munich threatened Gergiev with dismissal if he did not express the "right" position and condemn his country. Gergiev refused to do it.
@@ОльгаГофман-о8у Gergiev may be honest but then he his honestly bad. Cities are bombed, thousands of people die and there are already 4 million refugees. Gergiev still supports Putin. Then he is no better than a criminal.
@@pietervoogt You repeat what your media say. The Ukrainian army bombed the cities of Donbass from 2014 to 2022. As a result of these bombings, 3,339 civilians were killed, including 147 children. They continue to bomb Donetsk until now. In Mariupol, the Ukrainian military, hiding behind civilians as a human shield, did not let refugees out of the city and shot them in the back if someone tried to escape.
@@ОльгаГофман-о8у There were no problems in Donbass before Putin wanted part of Ukraine, just a few nationalists. They started the fighting, supported by Russia. You are brainwashed yourself.
@@pietervoogt All secret will become evident. History will put everything in its place and people will find out who was right and who was brainwashed. For some reason, none of the Western cultural figures condemned NATO when they bombed the cities of Yugoslavia, Libya and Iraq. Everyone was silent because they were not given the command, or did they just not care?
