Dmitri Kitayenko

Dmitri Kitaenko is one of the leading Russian conductors of his era. Though generally overshadowed by his modern Yuri Temirkanov, in addition to older-generation numbers like Kiril Kondrashin and Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kitaenko offers kept several prestigious performing posts and it has produced a spate of critically praised recordings for a number of major labels both in operatic and symphonic repertory mainly dominated by Russian composers. Kitaenko was created in Leningrad, on August 18, 1940. He analyzed conducting in the Leningrad Conservatory, after that later in the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Ginzburg. Using the thaw within the Chilly War allowing higher artistic freedom within the Soviet Union, he relocated onto the Vienna Conservatory where he analyzed under famed conductor Hans Swarowsky. The most important event in Kitaenko’s early profession was his access in the 1st Herbert von Karajan Competition in 1969, where he received 1st prize. The next yr he was appointed creative director on the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Movie theater in Moscow, a post that allowed him to get much knowledge in operatic repertory. He also started conducting the best Russian orchestras and shortly became a normal conductor on the Bolshoi. He traveled overseas, too, leading essential operatic productions in Brussels, Vienna, and Munich. In 1976 he was appointed primary conductor from the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, being successful Kiril Kondrashin. During his 14-calendar year stint in Moscow, Kitaenko produced many recordings for the Soviet label Melodiya, his produces including the comprehensive symphonies of Prokofiev, and different functions by Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, and, amazingly, Gershwin. In 1990 he still left the Soviet Union for American Europe, acquiring two conducting content concurrently, the Bergen (Norway) Philharmonic Orchestra, where he offered until 1998, as well as the Hessischen Rundfunk Orchestra, Frankfurt, a post he kept until 1996. Among Kitaenko’s initial recordings to become released in the western world was a 1991 Prokofiev disk over the Chandos label filled with Alexander Nevsky as well as the Scythian Collection, made out of the Danish Country wide Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir. After 1998, Kitaenko frequently began appearing being a visitor conductor in European countries, Japan, as well as the U.S. In the brand new century he provides produced several successful recordings, like the 2001 routine from the five Prokofiev piano concertos, along with his previous Frankfurt orchestra and pianist Vladimir Krainev over the Elektra label. In 2005, Kitaenko completed documenting the 15 symphonies of Shostakovich, as well as the established was issued over the Capriccio label to some quite favorable vital response. Further recordings included initiatives on Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky.