[3][4][5] Other friends of the Jewish family were Aram Khachaturian, Mikhail Romm, David Oistrach,[3] Mstislav Rostropovich, Emil Gilels and Leonid Kogan.
[7] He conducted in 1995 the premiere recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's unfinished opera The Gamblers after Nikolai Gogol, completed by Krzysztof Meyer in 1981, sung in Russian by soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre, with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
[3] Jurowski was active in Europe, including Moscow again and La Scala in Milan, and beyond, such as with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic in the Teatro Colón.
[3] In Scandinavia, he was close with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra,[4] and conducted the Bergen Philharmonic,[1] and in Malmö, Odense and Copenhagen.
[4] He conducted the first performance and recording of Anton Rubinstein's opera Moses with the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra in Warsaw in 2017.
[6][15] In 2015, Jurowski published an autobiography, covering as a gifted storyteller his meetings with great musicians.
[5][6][16] Jurowski made several first recordings, some in series such as orchestral works by Berthold Goldschmidt, and symphonies by Ture Rangström and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger.
He recorded rarely performed music such as Franz Lehár's opera Tatjana, Serge Prokofiev ballet Auf dem Dnjepr, Giacomo Meyerbeer's incidental music to Struensee,[13] and works by Aram Khachaturian, Ottorino Respighi and Franz von Suppé.