1427752131988: I had not expressed a desire to study music before... 1427827695214: My mother, Sofiya Vasilyevna, saw this and insiste... 1427827988461: 1427828130286: Mother studied at the Petersburg Conservatoire wit... 1427830167455: As a youth I was very harsh and intolerant. The sl... 1427830265752: I hear many mediocre musicians. A great many. But ... 1427830544099: I hate Toscanini. I’ve never heard him in a concer... 1427830776406: Stravinsky is one of the greatest composers of our... 1427833056826: I recall with pleasure my performance in the premi... 1427833401194: 1427833618294: 1427833724835: I have special memories of the Symphony of Psalms.... 1427834082753: 1427834364268: 1427834560729: 1427834839122: This Karapetian was a tenor and had a reputation i... 1427835074411: Another of Glière’s works that has unflagging popu... 1427835288736: 1427835530641: 1427835639499: The première of Wozzeck went brilliantly. The comp... 1427836482806: 1427877384806: 1427877541678: Yudina saw Mussorgsky as a purely religious compos... 1427917753861: Whatever Yudina played, she played ‘not like every... 1427917890676: Sofronitsky was like Yudina in that you never knew... 1427918497151: Sofronitsky and I played together several times, p... 1427919292295: The celebrities were amazed by Glazunov, and he by... 1427921260889: When Glazunov sat down to demonstrate something on... 1427921502661: Glazunov himself loved to sit down at the piano, a... 1427921621409: I always told my students this story. Once Glazuno... 1427921696869: I spoke of these people, my acquaintances, in vari... 1427921745098: When I speak to small children I often don’t delve... 1427921858051: Voroshilov loved choral singing. He sang himself, ... 1427921933422: I wonder who plays the violins that Tuckhachevsky ... 1427922132834: Lady Macbeth touches on many themes. I wouldn’t wa... 1427922674889: They really loved Pechkovsky in Leningrad. He was ... 1427922902335: 1427922992904: It’s funny to talk about it now, but there was a t... 1427923106601: 1427923192743: 1427923514041: 1427923560937: 1431345078511: And Glazunov played the piano rather well, I must ... 1431346802141: This quality of Jewish folk music is close to my i... 1431346935089: When they just send you music, it’s not so bad, I ... 1431347053025: Another form of musical torture which Glazunov suf... 1431347182660: After all, I like listening to music. That’s not t... 1431347357691: But the false culture isn’t giving up. I’m often i... 1431347822701: 1431348004181: And here’s an opposite example, Hindemith’s music.... 1431348289890: I suppose I can spend some time talking about the ... 1431348483873: In Rimsky-Korsakov’s version, the orchestra often ... 1431348786092: 1431349330783: 1431349701852: Another time Zoshchenko both touched me and distra... 1431352083017: 1431352413197: Shostakovich was passionately interested in his st... 1431382209919: On several occasions during my stay in Kubïshev, S... 1431382403946: The saga continues. The Bolshoy Theatre Orchestra ... 1431382707783: I recently received an invitation from the New Yor... 1431383158519: I have been sent a recording of Benjamin Britten’s... 1431383385274: All the cottages here have a tape-recorder, and ev... 1431383703470: 1431428526820: A singer of intellectual pretensions once decided ... 1431428754382: 1431429091607: Two days ago, Galina Vishnevskaya, David Oistrakh,... 1431429325288: 1431429537476: 1431429729220: I have heard Yureneva sing on the radio several ti... 1431429878447: I have the impression that you are a trifle scepti... 1431430061187: There is [at the hospital] a television, a Spidola... 1431430344593: True, I did go to the Bolshoy Theatre not long ago... 1431430549501: I get some pleasure from listening to shortwave ra... 1431431335801: 1431431475369: I have got to know Basner’s violin concerto. I fin... 1431431667528: I watched a film on television called You Cannot P... 1431431862578: Day after day I have been sitting at the composer’... 1431432143835: Oistrakh is already getting to grips with the sona... 1431432361040: The day before I went into hospital I was listenin... 1431432731164: Of course I am very sorry that you are not coming.... 1431433006575: Maksim gave me great joy not long ago: he gave a v... 1431433157756: I have found a bass soloist for the Fourteenth Sym... 1431433419847: David Oistrakh and Sviastoslav Richter will play m... 1431456017282: Barshai has begun rehearsals of my Fourteenth Symp... 1431456262838: On the 21st there was what amounted to a play-thro... 1431456867800: While we were in Dilizhan the composer Avset Terte... 1431457604368: Yesterday I went to the opening of the concert sea... 1431515919241: From the outside, it seemed as though the Moscow p... 1431516108741: I listened to Venyamin Basner’s quartet on a recor... 1431516265901: Yesterday I heard Sergey Solominsky’s opera, Virin... 1431516577066: I am not at all steady when I stand up. My hands a... 1431532765369: After the month I spent in hospital, I am now ensc... 1431533003452: You ask me how the revival of Katerina Izmailova w... 1431533286961: I should like you, please, tactfully to find out i... 1431533424293: Yesterday Maksim conducted the Fifteenth Symphony ... 1431533741773: It is a problem that Bogachova comes from Leningra... 1431534566542: From speaking about Meyerhold, Shostakovich turned... 1431534800137: I [Isaak Glikman] accompanied Shostakovich and Iri... 1431534963362: Shostakovich, his wife and I went to the Maly Oper... 1431709771876: Some hours before the performance Shostakovich and... 1432129756225: The atmosphere in the theatre [Musical Chamber The... 1432130069298: Soon after dinner, we made our way to the Small Ha... 1432130395657: I [Isaak Glikman] visited Shostakovich in Repino, ... 1432130852814: Before my arrival, Shostakovich had been listening... 1432131205341: I [Isaak Glikman] dined today with Shostakovich in... 1432131948793: Shostakovich said: 'A few days ago, on 10 May, we ... 1451561585061: 1451561686065: 1451585268798: 1451585595047: 1451586072291: 1451586501730: 1451586578374: 1451586720451: 1451586824422: 1451586984572: 1451587213355: 1451587450694: 1451587708396: 1451587888356: 1451588111086: 1451756084100: 1451756320574: 1451756504789: 1451756656662: 1451768897370: 1451769093481: 1451769387319: 1451769608565: 1451769853833: 1451770111135: 1451770211529: 1451770376403: 1451770607667: 1451771145553: 1451771294622: 1451772124003: 1451772287671: 1451772420069: 1451772586938: 1451772681298: 1451772784570: 1451772959300: 1451773042910: 1451773245957: 1451838648237: 1451838754215: 1451838935256: 1451839143711: 1451839328412: 1451839433013: 1451839648691: 1451839778030: 1451839870008: 1451839933795: 1452796629445: 1452797374632: 1452803087913: 1452811431282: 1452812609612: 1452888511652: 1452889138808: 1452889640173: 1454972616773: 1454973696773: 1454974128461: 1454974378083: 1456518160787: 1456518532951: 1456518830987: 1456611626453: 1456612270960: 1456612763284: 1456613137664: 1456614161382: 1456614314472: 1456614574525: 1456614917033: 1456615450790: 1456615790681: 1456698095135: 1456698534822: 1456699113601: 1456699368104: 1456769754495: 1458314499279: 1458314853867: 1458315293219: 1458315736426: 1458315999998: 1458316569286: 1458317073027: 1458317558333: 1458317971497: 1458318385957: 1458319204084: 1458319453155: 1458319659941: 1458564059582: 1458564429362: 1458564806589: 1458565095793: 1458565412910: 1458571254696: 1458571701013: 1458956664388: 1458957124951: 1458957244891: 1458957597663: 1458958030258: 1458958456213: 1458958621756: 1458959061001: 1458959209860: 1458959488046: 1458959717327: 1458960048397: 1459000042314: 1459000293445: 1459000593300: | 