Born in 1945, the composer and conductor Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky left the USSR in 1974 and now lives in Switzerland. "Rabinovitch's creative thinking is turned towards the culture of past centuries which he views as a whole - from the ancient esoteric theories to the art of the 19th century (...)." (Piotr Pospelov in Soviet Music N° 6, 1991, about the festival of contemporary music "Alternativa" in Moscow.)
Some critics define his music conception as "musical anthropology". His main works are all part of a global work-in-progress called "Anthology of Archaic Rituals - In Search of the Center".
He has presented his works at various festivals - the Venice Biennale (1977, 1979), "Steirischer Herbst" in Austria (1977), Witten festival (1975), Almeida festival in London (1989), "Alternativa" in Moscow (1991), "Musiktriennale" in Köln (1994), in Salzburg, Zurich, München, Paris, Tokyo, Milan, etc. His works were also recorded by MEGADISC Classics, DORON Music, Valois-Audivis and BIS.
Together with Martha Argerich he played and recorded works by Messiaen and Schumann for EMI and several CDs of music by Rachmaninov, Brahms, Mozart, Dukas, Richard Strauss and Ravel for TELDEC Classics.
As a conductor he has given public performances in Japan, France, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Russia.
His discography as a conductor includes:
* Mozart's Concertos No. 20 K. 466 and No. 19 K. 459 for piano and orchestra with Martha Argerich and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto (TELDEC Classics 1999),
* Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony, Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 recorded live, with Martha Argerich and the Sinfonia Varsovia (ACCORD Poland 2000),
* and the recently published live recording of Schumann's Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello with Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, and the Lugano Symphony Orchestra (EMI Classics 2004).
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