Orchestra Tenures
- 1951-1961 Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre (conductor)
- 1961-1974 Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television (Moscow)
- 1964-1970 Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre (principal conductor)
- 1974-1985 Chamber Theatre Orchestra
- 1974-1977 Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (artistic director)
- 1978-1981 BBC Symphony Orchestra (chief conductor)
- 1980-1982 Vienna Symphony
- 1983-1991 USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
- 1992-1995 Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
With the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra he recorded all the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Glazunov, Anton Bruckner, Alfred Schnittke, and Arthur Honegger. He also performed all the symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams in St. Petersburg in the late 1980s but only the 1st (the Sea Symphony) has been released on CD.
He has also conducted many of the world's greatest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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