 In 1990, he and his family left Russia for Germany.From 1992 to 1998, Jurowski was music director and principal conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Herford.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.