Michail Jurowski

While conductor Michail Jurowski has led many acclaimed performances in a wide variety of concert and operatic repertory throughout his career, he has become best known for his interpretations of lesser known music, particular rarely encountered works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. He has mined the byways of Prokofiev's substantial output with recordings of the incidental scores to Egyptian Nights, Hamlet, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, the film score Queen of Spades, and ballet Sur le Borysthene. And Jurowski has ventured into equally obscure Shostakovich territory: the orator...