Conductor Mykola Malko

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1995.

The TV film "Face to Face with the Orchestra" is dedicated to the conductor of Ukrainian origin Mykola Malko.

On the video: the village of Brailiv, Vinnytsia region, Mykola Malko's daughter in nature talks about the life of her father and the Malko family; biography of Mykola Malko; st. petersburg, Ilya Musin talks about Mykola Malko's teaching methods; Kyiv, Ukrainian conductor Ihor Blazhkov talks about Malko's book "Basic Conducting Techniques"; conducting lesson, mentor Ukrainian conductor Yevhen Dushchenko; memories of colleagues.

Comments: the conductor's daughter Olga Malko; conductors Ilya Musin, Ihor Blazhkov, Yevhen Dushchenko, Volodymyr Sirenko; Danish Ambassador to Ukraine Christian Faber-Rod; musicologist Mykhailo Golovashchenko.

Contains archival and audio materials of the Royal Danish Radio, Great Britain, the United States of America and Australia.

Reference: Mykola Malko is a conductor of Ukrainian origin, one of the key representatives of the Eastern European conducting school of the first half of the 20th century, whose activities covered the USSR, Western Europe, the USA and Australia. After emigrating in 1929, he played a prominent role in the musical life of Denmark, collaborated with the Copenhagen Royal Orchestra, contributed to the establishment of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the formation of the Danish conducting tradition of an international level. Malko's contribution to world musical culture combines premiere performances of works by leading composers of the 20th century, pedagogical activity and theoretical reflection on the art of conducting, recorded in his works and competitive heritage.