Ukraine-Russia war, the world of cultured music was banned after a statement made by the famous Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky. The keyboard virtuoso, known all over the world, speaking in a program by Pervyj Kanal, the main Russian state television, said in fact that the Western media are lying and that electricity should be cut in Kiev, asking for greater pressure on the capital. Ukraine for three weeks under siege by the Russian armed forces.
“I understand that we have pity for the Ukrainians, that we are going slowly, but shouldn’t we be stricter, surround them and cut their electricity?” Said Berezovsky, destabilizing even a Russian official present at the program, who interrupted the pianist by stressing the need to avoid a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Ukraine. “The important thing is to win the war of opinion in Russia, after which the whole world will understand us,” commented the officer.
Boris Berezovsky’s statement provoked the indignation of his colleagues. “I am amazed by these statements from my former friend Boris Berezovsky, but I can hear them coming out of his mouth,” German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt wrote on Twitter. “This friendship is officially over,” said the musician who currently conducts the Paris Chamber Orchestra. “What I see and hear is simply unbearable,” the French pianist François-Frédéric Guy also confided to France Musique. “He has made almost all of us uncomfortable, colleagues, the profession and beyond,” he added.