According to Solomon Volkov, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony “has a clear ‘subplot’: confrontation between artist and tyrant. The wild, frightening Scherzo [the second movement]…is a musical ...

101 Prokofiev, Sergei: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119 Andante grave / Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter. Violoncello 102 Prokofiev, Sergei: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119 Moderato / ...

from Bach and Vivaldi to Shostakovich, Britten, Bernstein, Messiaen and Dutilleux. He has recorded virtually every major cello concerto, joined in chamber recordings from Rameau to Schubert to ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died.

Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist and conductor who died Friday at 80, was one of the great titans among instrumentalists of the 20th Century. Fortunately he left behind a huge discography ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor considered by many to be one of the finest virtuosos of his instrument in the last half of the 20th century, has died. He was 80. Rostropovich, who ...

As we head into the final week of the Shostakovich Festival, it seemed fitting that Mstislav Rostropovich’s program featuring the composer’s most popular work should be performed, not with the Chicago ...

2007-04-27 08:56:05 PDT -- Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist, conductor and champion of human rights who stood at the center of musical and international life for more than half a century, died ...

101 Prokofiev, Sergei: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119 Andante grave / Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter. Violoncello. 102 Prokofiev, Sergei: Sonata for ...