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Release Date: 08/15/2000 Label: Emi Classics Special Import Catalog #: 72297 Spars Code: ADD Composer: Benjamin Britten, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ottorino Respighi, Arthur Honegger, Richard Strauss Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich, Boris Simsky, L. Dvoskin Conductor: Benjamin Britten, Mstislav Rostropovich, Kiril Kondrashin, Victor Dubrovsky Orchestra/Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Number of Discs: 2 |
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Britten's Cello Suites, Opp. 72 and 80 are wonderfully sonorous, the Second Suite's "Ciaccona" leading nicely to the similarly varied first movement of the Cello Symphony... Villa-Lobos's haunting "Preludio" [is] rapturously played (and well conducted) by Rostropovich in 1962 and better-recorded than the Russian Disc performance... Kondrashin conducts Respighi's lyrical Adagio con variazioni (Russian Disc's stereo version is under Rozhdestvensky); Honegger's 1929 Cello Concerto opens in the manner of Gershwin (a connection that Rostropovich's 1964 performance appears to relish) and Kondrashin returns for the same boldly etched account of Strauss's Don Quixote (1964)... ...Of course, it goes without saying that many of the modern works were either commissioned by or dedicated to Rostropovich and that we are unlikely to encounter rival performances of the same repertory that are either as wholly compelling or more truly 'authentic'. As to the playing, everything — or virtually everything — subscribes to a familiar and distinctive interpretative formula, i.e. forceful tone-projection, prominent vibrato (distinctively wide and fast during softer passages), marked dynamic extremes, unstinting demonstrativeness and a comprehensive grasp of the score to hand. -- Gramophone [5/1997, reviewing EMI 72016] |
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Suite for Cello solo no 1, Op. 72 by Benjamin Britten |
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Performer:
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1964; England |
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Date of Recording: 02/15/1966 Venue: Grand Hall, Moscow Conservatory, USSR Length: 22 Minutes 14 Secs. |
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Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 by Benjamin Britten |
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Performer:
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Conductor: Benjamin Britten Orchestra/Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1963; England |
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Date of Recording: 03/12/1964 Venue: Live Grand Hall, Moscow Conservatory, USSR Length: 32 Minutes 33 Secs. |
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Bachianas brasileiras no 1 for 8 Cellos: Prelúdio "Modinha" by Heitor Villa-Lobos |
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Performer:
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich Period: 20th Century Written: 1930; Brazil |
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Date of Recording: 02/06/1962 Venue: Live Small Hall, Moscow Conservatory, USSR Length: 8 Minutes 33 Secs. |
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Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Orchestra by Ottorino Respighi |
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Performer:
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin Orchestra/Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1920; Rome, Italy |
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Length: 10 Minutes 56 Secs. |
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Concerto for Cello by Arthur Honegger |
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Performer:
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Conductor: Victor Dubrovsky Orchestra/Ensemble: USSR State Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1934; France |
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Date of Recording: 02/14/1964 Venue: Live Grand Hall, Moscow Conservatory, USSR Length: 15 Minutes 34 Secs. |
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Don Quixote, Op. 35 by Richard Strauss |
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Performer:
Boris Simsky (Violin),
L. Dvoskin (Viola),
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Conductor: Kiril Kondrashin Orchestra/Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1896-1897; Germany |
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Date of Recording: 03/12/1964 Venue: Grand Hall, Moscow Conservatory, USSR Length: 41 Minutes 40 Secs. |
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Suite for Cello solo no 2, Op. 80 by Benjamin Britten |
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Performer:
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1967; England |
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Length: 19 Minutes 59 Secs. |
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