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Conductor, pianist, and above all, world-renowned cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich was […]
The main purpose in putting this set together, obviously, was
It’s impossible to discuss this symphony without relating three stories.
Anyone with a passing interest in Rostropovich or the cello will likely own some or all of the contents of the first disc in this
Rostropovich knew and worked with Prokofiev before he met Shostakovich, and he left behind some very good recordings of that composer’s music. When this disc
Galina Vishnevskaya was about 50 in the mid-1970s when she recorded these songs and arias, the voice hardly as fresh as it once had been.
The first sounds heard in Sofia Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun, an ascending series of strained solo cello portamentos, gives the impression that we’re in
This Prokofiev compilation from Deutsche Grammophon’s new Panorama “twofer” series (two discs for the price of one) receives a 10/10 rating on the basis of
First, let me say that this new Beethoven Violin Concerto recording undoubtedly will generate controversy: it stands as the polar opposite to Heifetz’s classic, invigoratingly
This was bad repertoire selection. I love Rostropovich’s Shostakovich, and I love the LSO in this work, but you can have Rostropovich in far better
