MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
SHOSTAOKOVICH: CELLO CONCERTO NO. 1
Filmed in London, 16 December 1961.
Source: BBC Archive
PROKOFIEV: SINFONIA CONCERTANTE
Filmed in Cannes, 12 January 1970.
Source: INA Archive
BONUS: GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA SINGS MUSSORGSKY'S SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH:
Filmed in Paris, 20 January 1970.
Source: INA Archive
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'Slava' Rostropovich, intense as ever in two major works that he had himself premiered years earlier: Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto (recorded 1960) and Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante (1970). The bonus this time is a haunting and demonstrative performance of Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, again from 1970, where Slava switches to the piano to accompany his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya.

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