Celebrating Slava: In Remembrance of Mstislav Rostropovich
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Label: Haenssler Profil
Cat No: PH08029
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Release Date: 31st August 2008
Contents
Works
MassCello Suite no.2, op.80
Nocturne
Scherzo for cello and piano, L26
Strophes (3) sur le nom de Sacher
Trauerode fur Margret Geddes for cello sextet
Aluzija for 2 solo celli, cello ensemble, harp and percussion
Nach dem Weinen for solo cello
Silent Prayer
With a Smile for Slava
Sacher Variation
Cello Sonata no.2 in A minor, op.81
Le Grand Tango
Cello Concertino in G minor, op.132
Cinderella, op.87
Humoresque, op.5
Improvisation for solo cello
Minuet for String Trio
Musica Nostalgica
Peer Gynt
Na pososhok... (One for the road...)
Passacaglia for Solo Cello
Works
MassCello Suite no.2, op.80
Nocturne
Scherzo for cello and piano, L26
Strophes (3) sur le nom de Sacher
Trauerode fur Margret Geddes for cello sextet
Aluzija for 2 solo celli, cello ensemble, harp and percussion
Nach dem Weinen for solo cello
Silent Prayer
With a Smile for Slava
Sacher Variation
Cello Sonata no.2 in A minor, op.81
Le Grand Tango
Cello Concertino in G minor, op.132
Cinderella, op.87
Humoresque, op.5
Improvisation for solo cello
Minuet for String Trio
Musica Nostalgica
Peer Gynt
Na pososhok... (One for the road...)
Passacaglia for Solo Cello
About
They have been recorded on these four CDs as a lasting homage to the maestro.
The live recordings are taken from the eighth Kronberg Cello Festival “in remembrance – celebrating Slava” in 2007, where friends, former students and companions of Mstislav Rostropovich gathered to honour his memory and celebrate a unique artist.
Contents:
CD 1
William Walton: Passacaglia for solo cello C 98, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Sebastian Hess (cello)
Giya Kancheli: “Nach dem Weinen” for solo cello, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Julius Berger (cello)
Henri Dutilleux: 3 Strophes sur le nom de Paul Sacher, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), László Fenyö (cello)
Alfred Schmittke: Improvisation for solo cello, (dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich, work commissioned for the Rostropovich Cello Competition, Paris), Eun-Sun Hong (cello) (Concert by young artists)
Witold Lutoslawski: Sacher Variations, (premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) (Concert by young artists)
Benjamin Britten: Cello Suite No 2 in D Major Op. 80, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Miklós Perényi (cello)
CD 2
Alfred Schnittke: Minuet for String Trio, (premiered by Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and Mstislav Rostropovich), Gidon Kremer (violin), Ula Ulijona Zebriunaite (viola), David Geringas (cello)
Sergei Prokofiev: Valse from “Cinderella” (arranged for violoncello and piano by Mstislav Rostropovich), Lynn Harrell (cello), Pavel Gililov (piano)
Sergei Prokofiev: March from “The Love for three Oranges” (arranged for violoncello and piano by Mstislav Rostropovich), Lynn Harrell (cello), Pavel Gililov (piano)
Mstislav Rostropovich: Humoresque Op. 5, Gabriel Schwabe (cello), Pavel Gililov (piano)
Mstislav Rostropovich: Etude for solo cello, Young-Chang Cho (cello)
Claude Debussy: Nocturne et Scherzo, (premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Gary Hoffman (cello), David Selig (piano)
Astor Piazzolla: Grand Tango, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Young Chang Cho (cello), Pavel Gililov (piano)
Giya Kancheli: With a Smile for Slava, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Mischa Maisky (cello), Pavel Gililov (piano)
Yuri Shaporin: The Russian Song and Scherzo, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Andreas Brantelid (cello), Pavel Gililov, (piano)
Alfred Schnittke: Musica Nostalgica, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Arto Noras (cello), Ralf Gothóni (piano)
Benjamin Britten: Sonata for violoncello and piano in CMajor Op. 65, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Natalia Gutman (cello), Viacheslav Poprugin (piano)
CD 3
Alfred Schnittke: Epilogue from the ballet “Peer Gynt”, (arranged by Alfred Schnittke for piano, cello and tape-recorder, dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), David Geringas (cello), Jascha Nemtsov (piano)
Nikolai Miaskovsky: Cello Sonata No 2, (dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Natalia Gutman (cello), Viacheslav Poprugin (piano)
Sergei Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in CMajor Op. 119, (premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Andreas Brantelid (cello), Pavel Gililov (piano)
CD 4
Rodion Shchedrin: Slava! Slava! Ein festliches Glockengeläut, (dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich on his 70th birthday), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Neeme Järvi, conductor
Hans-Werner Henze: Trauerode fürMargret Geddes, for cello sextet, (premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich and Cellissimo in 1997), Cellissimo*
Sergei Prokofiev: Second Movement of the Concertino in GMinor, (arranged for cello sextet and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich, premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich and Cellissimo in 1999) , Cellissimo*
Rodion Shchedrin: “Na pososhok...” (“One for the road...”) (in remembrance of Slava, for six violoncelli and treble recorder), Cellissimo*, Sabine Ambos (recorder) World Premiere
Romualds Kalsons: Aluzija for two solo celli, cello ensemble, harp and percussion, (dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich), Monika Leskovar (cello), Giovanni Sollima (cello), Cellissimo**, Lucianne Brady (harp), Andrei Pushkarev (percussion), David Geringas, conductor
Leonard Bernstein: Three Meditations from “Mass” for cello, (dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich), Gary Hoffman (cello) Kremerata Baltica, David Geringas, conductor
Giya Kancheli: Silent Prayer, (dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich on his 80th birthday and to Gidon Kremer on his 60th birthday), Gidon Kremer (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Kremerata Baltica World Premiere
* Julius Berger, László Fenyö, Sebastian Hess, Wolfgang Lehner, Wolfgang Tiepold, Raimund Trenkler
** Yi-Bing Chu, Sebastian Hess, Wolfgang Lehner, Raimund Trenkler
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