The Glory of Rostropovich - 80th Birthday Tribute

Deutsche Grammopohn celebrates the life, career and spirit of Mstislav Rostropovich -- • Eight full discs all in one package at a budget price. Includes all the great cello concertos plus a wide selection of Rostropovich as conductor and chamber musician. R E V I E W S: "...the Rostropovich/Karajan partnership is an inspired one and these are great performances. Rostropovich's sense of nostalgia in the secondary material of the finale of the Dvorak Concerto is quite memorable (especially towards the close) and he brings a comparable feeling of Russian melancholy to the lyrical pages of Tchaikovsky's splendid variations. Musically this is in a class of its own." -- Ivan March, Gramophone review of original release DG 413819, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky "In the Brahms both [Serkin] and Rostropovich forget their customary energy and offer a performance of a profoundly elegiac beauty. Listen to their hushed magic at 9'59" in the first movement, to their gently propelled Minuet and to a dignity and restraint that never exclude vitality in the finale, and you are made aware of a consummate quality unattainable to lesser mortals." -- Bryce Morrison, Gramophone review of DG 474328, Brahms Cello Sonata no 1 "the Meditations for cello and orchestra...beautifully reflect the individual poetry of the two artists who here perform them and for whom they were written. I had forgotten how well the fragments from Mass work as a separate piece, when delivered with the magnetism of Rostropovich." -- Edward Greenfield, Gramophone review of DG 415966, Bernstein Medtations from Mass Works on This Recording 1. Concerto for Cello in A major, G 475 by Luigi Boccherini ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Paul Sacher ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Collegium Musicum ■ Period: Classical 2. Concerto for Cello in A minor, Op. 129 by Robert Schumann ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Gennadi Rozhdestvensky ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1850; Germany 3. Concerto for Cello in G major, RV 413 by Antonio Vivaldi ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Paul Sacher ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Collegium Musicum ■ Period: Baroque ■ Written: Venice, Italy 4. Concerto for Cello in A major by Giuseppe Tartini ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Paul Sacher ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Collegium Musicum ■ Period: Baroque ■ Written: 18th Century; Italy 5. Concerto for Cello in C major, RV 398 by Antonio Vivaldi ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Paul Sacher ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Collegium Musicum ■ Period: Baroque ■ Written: Venice, Italy 6. Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104/B 191 by Antonín Dvorák ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Herbert von Karajan ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1894-1895; USA 7. Variations for Cello and Orchestra on a Rococo theme, Op. 33 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Herbert von Karajan ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1876; Russia 8. Andante cantabile for Cello and Strings, Op. 11 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: ?1886-88; Russia 9. Chant du ménestrel for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 71 by Alexander Glazunov ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Seiji Ozawa ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1900; Russia 10. Concerto for Cello no 2 in G major, Op. 126 by Dmitri Shostakovich ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Seiji Ozawa ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra ■ Period: 20th Century ■ Written: 1966; USSR 11. Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: National Symphony, Washington, D. C. ■ Period: 20th Century ■ Written: 1937; USSR 12. Concert à quatre by Olivier Messiaen ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Bastille Opera Orchestra ■ Period: 20th Century ■ Written: 1991; France 13. Mass: Meditations (3) by Leonard Bernstein ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Conductor: Leonard Bernstein ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: 20th Century ■ Written: 1971; USA 14. Sonata for Cello and Piano no 1 in E minor, Op. 38 by Johannes Brahms ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello), Rudolf Serkin (Piano) ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1862-1865; Austria 15. Sonata for Cello and Piano no 2 in F major, Op. 99 by Johannes Brahms ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello), Rudolf Serkin (Piano) ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1886; Austria 16. Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, B 160/Op. 65 by Frédéric Chopin ■ Performer: Martha Argerich (Piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1845-1846; Paris, France 17. Introduction and Polonaise for Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 3 by Frédéric Chopin ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello), Martha Argerich (Piano) ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1829-1830; Poland 18. Quintet for Strings in C major, Op. 163/D 956 by Franz Schubert ■ Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1828; Vienna, Austria 19. Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ■ Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1875-1876; Russia 20. Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ■ Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1889; Russia 21. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ■ Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1892; Russia 22. Capriccio italien, Op. 45 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ■ Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1880; Russia 23. Romeo and Juliet Suite no 1, Op. 64a by Sergei Prokofiev ■ Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: National Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: 20th Century ■ Written: 1936; Paris, France 24. Romeo and Juliet Suite no 2, Op. 64b by Sergei Prokofiev ■ Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich ■ Orchestra / Ensemble: National Philharmonic Orchestra ■ Period: 20th Century ■ Written: 1936; Paris, France 25. Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano in A flat major, Op. 70: Adagio by Robert Schumann ■ Performer: Martha Argerich (Piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello) ■ Period: Romantic ■ Written: 1849; Germany