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Classical music critic Norman Lebrecht talks to major figures in the field

The Lebrecht Interview: Lilian Hochhauser

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06/08/2012

Lilian Hochhauser

BBC Radio 3 - The Lebrecht Interview, Lilian Hochhauser

Norman Lebrecht meets celebrated impresario Lilian Hochhauser.

Norman Lebrecht meets impresario Lilian Hochhauser, who along with her husband Victor, introduced British audiences to some of the greatest Russian musicians of all time.

Norman Lebrecht meets celebrated impresario Lilian Hochhauser, who along with her husband Victor, introduced British audiences to some of the greatest Russian musicians of all time, during the fraught period of soviet rule.

Now in her eighties, Lilian - from a Jewish Ukrainian background - recalls the Cold War period which saw her and Victor pushing cultural and political boundaries to bring some of the most feted names in Russian music to Britain for the first time. Everyone from Rostropovich, Richter and Oistrakh through to The Borodin Quartet and the Kirov Ballet recieved their London debuts thanks to the Hochhausers.

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