"To play his music with Russian musicians, with a Russian conductor, in Russia was overwhelming," he said.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky (born 4 May 1931, Moscow) is a Russian conductor.

But he is not simply a great Russian conductor, he is a great conductor, period.

Vladimir Jurowski (born 4 April 1972 in Moscow) is a Russian conductor.

The company has wisely brought in a Russian conductor (Alexander Anissimov) and a boatload of principal singers.

Roman Yurevich Moiseyev (born 12 May 1960) is a Russian conductor.

Even its legendary Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky spent his formative years in Paris.

This was a strikingly less sentimental reading than British, American and Russian conductors typically give.

The Russian conductor looked up from his stove and grinned.

Rudolf Barshai, 86, Russian conductor and viola player.