My greatest pleasure, of course, was to make contact with Soviet musicians – nonetheless my colleagues for the belated beginning of our acquaintance – some of whom I was repeatedly to meet again, wither in Moscow or the West. I had misconceptions to correct and findings to establish: the classicism of a Russian interpretation of Tchaikovsky was a welcome surprise after some of the unleashed Tchaikovskys of my experience; the excellence of Russian musical training duly impressed me.