Tchaikovsky and Mahler performed by Yuri Temirkanov
The article is devoted to the performing art of the outstanding conductor of our time - Yuri Khatuyevich Temirkanov. Briefly tracing the artist’s career, the author, using examples from Temirkanov’s address over the years to the performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, traces the depth of the conductor’s decisions, analyzes the conductor’s technique and artistic interpretation of musical images embedded in the works of great composers, draws relevant parallels and analogies with dramatic art.