Horizons of mutual cooperation: Saulius Sondeckis and Yehudi Menuhin

ENThe Lithuanian conductor Saulius Sondeckis worked with several world-class musical figures, including Yehudi Menuhin. Sondeckis felt the influence of Menuhin's personality throughout the course of his artistic life, both as a virtual factor in artistic development and through direct contact. Menuhinís influence was not limited to the musical or the artistic; Menuhin openly criticised the political repressions in the Soviet Union. In the 1990s, Sondeckis and Menuhin worked together actively, with Menuhin conducting two orchestras led by Sondeckis. The cooperation of two masters resulted in the symbiosis of the easily recognised playing manner of Sondeckis' orchestras and the individuality of Menuhin's interpretations.