Rostropovich: Young Slava | Melodiya MELCD1002505

Rostropovich: Young Slava

Label: Melodiya

Cat No: MELCD1002505

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 9

Release Date: 27th October 2017

Contents

Artists

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Rudolf Barshai (viola)
Emil Gilels (piano)
Leonid Kogan (violin)
Dmitri Shebalin (viola)
Boris Simsky (violin)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Ensemble of Cellos
Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Soloists of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Yuri Ahronovitch
Benjamin Britten
Victor Dubrovsky
Boris Khaikin
Kirill Kondrashin
David Oistrakh
Mstislav Rostropovich
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Evgeny Svetlanov

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

String Trio in C minor, op.9 no.3
String Trio in G major, op.9 no.1

Bloch, Ernest

Schelomo (Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra)

Britten, Benjamin

Symphony for cello and orchestra, op.68

Dvorak, Antonin

Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104

Faure, Gabriel

Piano Quartet no.1 in C minor, op.15

Khachaturian, Aram

Concerto-Rhapsody in D minor for cello and orchestra

Knipper, Lev

Concerto-Monologue

Lalo, Edouard

Cello Concerto in D minor

Levitin, Yuri

Concertino for cello and orchestra, op.54

Myaskovsky, Nicolai

Cello Concerto in C minor, op.66

Respighi, Ottorino

Adagio con Variazioni, P133

Saint-Saens, Camille

Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.33

Schumann, Robert

Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, op.63

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Cello Concerto no.1 in E flat major, op.107

Strauss, Richard

Don Quixote, op.35

Tchaikovsky, Boris

Cello Concerto

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Pezzo capriccioso in B minor, op.62
Variations on a Rococo theme, op.33

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Bachianas Brasileiras no.5
» Aria (Cantilena)

Vlasov, Vladimir

Improvisation for cello and orchestra

Weinberg, Mieczyslaw

Cello Concerto in C minor, op.43

Artists

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Rudolf Barshai (viola)
Emil Gilels (piano)
Leonid Kogan (violin)
Dmitri Shebalin (viola)
Boris Simsky (violin)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Ensemble of Cellos
Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Soloists of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Yuri Ahronovitch
Benjamin Britten
Victor Dubrovsky
Boris Khaikin
Kirill Kondrashin
David Oistrakh
Mstislav Rostropovich
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Evgeny Svetlanov

About

Melodiya presents an anniversary boxset Young Slava dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Mstislav Rostropovich’s birth.

The musician of genius – a cellist, conductor, concertmaster, educator, composer and public figure – played a colossal part in the history of music art of this country and the whole world. Knowing about the range of his activities, the role of a performing soloist and a purely musical domain were too small for his mighty talent and temperament. Nevertheless, there were only few who enriched the cello literature with new works, who changed the view of solo cello art and who gave himself up to Music as he much as he did, for without Music he “could not live and could not breathe”.

In the early 1950s, the glory of Slava (a hypocoristic of ‘Mstislav’ and the Russian for ‘glory’) Rostropovich swept the musical space of this country, and ten years later they called him Cellist No.1 and ranked him among the world’s greatest musicians. The fact that Rostropovich’s art was a prerequisite to the interest in cello shown by the leading Soviet composers such as Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Myaskovsky, Khachaturian, Boris Tchaikovsky, Weinberg and many, many others can hardly be overestimated.

This set comprises recordings made before 1967. Above all, these are recordings that were first performed by Mstislav Rostropovich (with the recorded premiere of Britten’s Cello Symphony conducted by the composer among them). Classical repertoire was as important in his programmes – you will hear live recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, concertos by Dvořák, Lalo and Saint-Saëns. The artist’s ensemble recordings with the leading Soviet musicians like Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan and Rudolf Barshai are of special interest as well.

The edition comprises a lidded hard box made from lined cardboard, 9 multicoloured digipacks and a booklet in English and Russian.

Contents:
CD 1
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770–1827)
- String Trio in G major, op.9 no.1
- String Trio in C minor, op.9 no.3
Leonid Kogan, violin
Rudolf Barshai, viola
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Recorded in 1958

CD 2
Gabriel Fauré
(1845–1924)
- Piano Quartet no.1 in C minor, op.15
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
- Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, op.63
Emil Gilels, piano
Leonid Kogan, violin
Rudolf Barshai, viola
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Recorded in 1958

CD 3
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
- Pezzo capriccioso for cello and orchestra, op.62
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra, op.33
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
- Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov, Boris Khaikin
Recorded live on 20 May 1964, 17 January 1964, 12 November 1963

CD 4
Mieczysław Weinberg
(1919–1996)
- Cello Concerto in C minor, op.43
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
- Cello Concerto no. 1 in E flat major, op.107
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
The Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, David Oistrakh
Recorded live on 25 February 1964, 24 January 1965

CD 5
Lev Knipper
(1898–1974)
- Concerto-Monologue for cello, brass ensemble and timpani (1962)
Vladimir Vlasov (1902–1986)
- Improvisation for cello and orchestra (1961)
Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996)
- Cello Concerto (1964)
Yuri Levitin (1912–1993)
- Concertino for cello and orchestra, op.54
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Soloists of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
Recorded live on 25 February, 20 May, 4 April 1964

CD 6
Nikolai Myaskovsky
(1881–1950)
- Cello Concerto in C minor, op.66
Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978)
- Concerto-Rhapsody for cello and orchestra (1963)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
- Ária from Bachianas Brasileiras no.5 for soprano and ensemble of cellos, W 389
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Ensemble of cellos, Mstislav Rostropovich
Recorded live on 17 January 1964 and 22 January 1964, 1959

CD 7
Édouard Lalo
(1823–1892)
- Cello Concerto in D minor (1877)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
- Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.33
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
- Adagio con variazioni for cello and orchestra (1921)
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Victor Dubrovsky
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Recorded live on 24 February and 25 Аpril 1964.

CD 8
Richard Strauss
(1864–1949)
- Don Quixote, fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character for cello and orchestra, op.35
Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)
- Schelomo, Hebrew rhapsody for сello and orchestra (1916)
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Boris Simsky, violin
Dmitri Shebalin, viola
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Ahronovitch
Recorded live in 1964

CD 9
Benjamin Britten
(1913–1976)
- Cello Symphony, op.68
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Recorded at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on 12 March 1964

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