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Mariss Jansons
Like many classical musicians who were alive during the Second World War, the
terrible events in Europe shaped their future, often in unpredictable ways. In
the case of the conductor Mariss Jansons, he was born in the notorious Riga
Ghetto where very few of the Jewish inhabitants escaped. Jansons was a new-born
child when in 1943 his mother, the singer Iraida Jansone, smuggled him out of
the ghetto after her father and brother were murdered by the Nazis.
His father was the well-known conductor Arvids Jansons who after the war settled
in Leningrad to take up an appointment with...
VIII. Communio: Lux AeternaGenia Kuhmeier, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons
Banditen-Galopp, Polka schnell, Op. 378Wiener Philharmoniker and Mariss Jansons
VIII. Communio: Lux AeternaGenia Kuhmeier, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons
Banditen-Galopp, Polka schnell, Op. 378Wiener Philharmoniker and Mariss Jansons
Strauss : Also Sprach Zarathustra - Don Juan - Rosenkavalier Suites
