Belarusian conductor Walter Mnatsakanov has passed away at the age of 85. Mnatsakanov was a prolific conductor and influential teacher in Minsk who went on to make a number of recordings with Naxos Records as a conductor and an arranger. AMong his credits as an arranger include Arensky’s opera “Raphael,” Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s “Baritone Arias” album, and an album of orchestral {…}