Mstislav Rostropovich - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations; Glazunov (2013)

‘Rostropovich plays with beautifully controlled feeling … Ozawa provides a most sympathetic and well-disciplined accompaniment and draws finely expressive playing from all departments of the orchestra. … Glazunov’s ‘Chant du Ménestrel’ […] will give unalloyed pleasure. The recording is excellently balanced, both in terms of the overall perspective as well as the relationship between the various elements of the orchestra … most is made of the spacious and warm acoustic. This, then, is a most truthful recording of a most distinguished performance’ (Shostakovich, Glazunov) Gramophone

‘charismatic accompaniments by the splendid Leningrad Philharmonic under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. Rostropovich is nothing if not a larger-than-life cellist … The sound is excellent’ Gramophone


Tracks:

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Andante cantabile, Op. posth.
Berliner Philharmoniker

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Chant du Ménestrel, Op. 71
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

Mstislav Rostropovich, cello