Happy birthday to People’s Artist of the USSR, artistic director and principal conductor of the Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev.
All round, the best Tchaikovsky conductor of his time.
Certainly in the ballets and operas, arguably in most of the symphonies
He has concerts coming up on September 19 at the Zaryadye Hall and on October 10 at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
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