Mstislav Rostropovich: A Romantic Portrait [Dvořak, Schumann, Tchaikovsky]

Featuring

Sir Adrian Boult
Mstislav Rostropovich
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Antonín Dvořák
Robert Schumann
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Performer Biography

Mstislav Rostropovich was an internationally recognized advocate for human rights and was awarded the 1974 Award of the International League of Human Rights.

Performer Biography

Mstislav Rostropovich's support for dissidents, including sheltering Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, led to official disgrace and the revocation of his Soviet citizenship in 1978.

Composition History

Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor was written in 1894-1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but was premiered by the English cellist Leo Stern.

Performer Biography

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist on this recording, is considered one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century.

Performer Biography

Mstislav Rostropovich significantly enlarged the cello repertoire by inspiring and commissioning over 100 new works.

Composition History

Robert Schumann completed his Cello Concerto in just two weeks in October 1850, shortly after becoming music director at Düsseldorf.

Performer Biography

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist, studied piano and cello from a young age and had Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev as teachers at the Moscow Conservatory.