Note. The life of Rudolf Barshai, narrated by him in the film by Oleg Dorman

A conductor Rudolf Barshai belonged to the pleiad of the great musicians of the 20th century. Created by him at the end of the fifties, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra conquered the audience around the world. The permanent partners of the orchestra were Svyatoslav Richter, David Ostrakh, Emil Gileels. At the peak of a career in 1977, Barshai left to play the writings that were banned in the USSR. He led the orchestras in Israel and the United Kingdom, Canada and France, Switzerland and Japan. On the slope of years, in Switzerland, in front of the camera of film director Oleg Dorman Barshai recalls his wicked childhood, about youth during the war years, about love and loss, about his legendary teachers, friends, colleagues - D.Shostakovich, I.Nehukhin, M. Rostropovic , I. Sestavinsky, - about the difficulties of emigration and happy decades of free creativity. The book was created according to the documentary film, filmed Oleg Dorman in 2010, the author of the subsidiary, and is a confessional monologue of the maestro a month before its death.

& quot, Barling friends, legendary musicians - David Ostrakh"s violinist, Pianist Emil Gilels, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich - We did not leave our memoirs, in different and difficult reasons.
This is a huge loss, non-rally.
This is precious than the memories of Barshars, covering a huge temporary segment (from birth to the last years of life) and to the edges filled with finish cut into memory - when tragic, and when comic - episodes and bright details & quot,