2025-12-16
1 小时 4 分钟What is it like to be a pianist, conductor,
and the son of one of the greatest figures of the 20th century?
Ignat Solzhenitsyn on Uncommon Knowledge, now.
Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, recording today in Salzburg, Austria.
I'm Peter Robinson.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn was born in Moscow in 1972, about two years after his father,
the great novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for Literature,
and about two years before his father was expelled from the Soviet Union.
Growing up in his family's home in exile in tiny Cavendish, Vermont, Mr.
Solzhenitsyn began the study of music that would make him a renowned pianist and conductor.
Although his principal residence is in New York, Mr.
Solzhenitsyn now holds a chair in piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and serves as the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, thank you for joining us.
So pleased to be with you.
Ignat, your story.
In 1974, having published the Gulag Archipelago, his exposé of the Soviet labor camps,
your father was charged with treason and expelled from the USSR.
You, your mother,
and your brothers lived for a couple of decades in Cavendish, Vermont, population today.
I don't know what the population was when you were there,