Igor Markevich & Orchestre de L'ORTF
The Archive - Igor Markevitch
Artist: Igor Markevich & Orchestre de L'ORTF - Producer: Idéale Audience - Conductor: Igor Markevitch - Featured Artist: RTF National Orchestra, ORTF National Orchestra & Igor Markevitch - Composer: Richard Wagner & Dmitri Shostakovich - Orchestra: RTF National Orchestra & ORTF National Orchestra
The Archive - Igor Markevitch
This episode of ‘The Archive’ is devoted to the Russian composer and conductor Igor Markevitch, an artist who journeyed through the twentieth century with amazing ease. We first catch up with him in 1963, as he conducts Shostakovich’s ‘Symphony no. 1’ in F minor, leading the RTF Symphony Orchestra in Paris. Markevitch conducts the ORTF National Orchestra for two compositions of Richard Wagner during the 1968 Besançon Music Festival. And whether in the ‘Tannhäuser Overture’ or the powerful ‘Ride of the Valkyries’, Igor Markevitch displays a passion and intensity that never work against the musical architecture.