Cellist of the Century: The Complete Warner Recordings

~ Release by Mstislav Rostropovich (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Annotation

40 CD + 3 DVD + 200-page book

Annotation last modified on 2024-09-15 13:31 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Saint-Säens: Cello Concerto no. 1 in A minor, op. 33 / Miaskovsky: Cello Concerto, op. 66(Sargent)
2▶CD: Dvořák: Cello Concerto(Boult)
3▶CD: Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante (Sargent) / Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
4▶CD: Brahms: Cello Sonata no. 2 / Popper: Dance of the Elves / Debussy: Minstrels / Clair de lune / Scriabin: Etude no. 11, op. 8
5▶CD: Brahms: Double Concerto(w. Oistrakh, Szell)
6▶CD: Beethoven: Triple Concerto(w. Oistrakh & Richter, Karajan)
7▶CD: Dutilleux, Lutosławski: Cello Concertos
8▶CD: R. Strauss: Cello Sonata / Beethoven: Cello Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” and “See, the Conquering Hero Comes”
9▶CD: Strauss: Don Quixote(Karajan)
10▶CD: Haydn: Cello Concertos nos. 1 & 2
11▶CD: Schumann: Cello Concerto / Bloch: Schelomo(Bernstein)
12▶CD: Dvořák, Saint‐Saëns: Cello Concertos(Giulini)
13▶CD: Brahms: Double Concerto( w. Perlman, Haitink)
14▶CD: Landowski: Un enfant appelle / La Prison
15▶CD: Dvořák: Cello Concerto / Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations(Ozawa)
16▶CD: Penderecki, Halffter: Cello Concertos no. 2(
17▶CD: Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante / Shostakovich: Cello Concertos(Ozawa)
18▶CD: Milhaud: Concerto no. 1 / Honegger: Concerto / Hoddinott: Noctis equi(Kent Nagano)
19▶CD: Bach: Cello Suites nos. 1, 4 & 5
20▶CD: Bach: Cello Suites nos. 2, 3 & 6
21▶CD: Vivaldi, Tartini, C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos(Wolff)
22▶CD: Works for Cello & Organ
23▶CD: Gagneux: Triptyque / Shchedrin: Sotto voce concerto
24▶CD: Schnittke: Concerto for Three / String Trio / Minuet
25▶CD: Knaifel: Make me drunk with your kisses / D. Matthews: Romanza
26▶CD: Gubaidulina: The Canticle of the Sun / Shostakovich: 7 Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok
27▶CD: Prokofiev: Cello Sonata / Sinfonia concertante / Cello Concertino(Rozhdestvensky)
28▶CD: Short Pieces & Transcriptions
29▶CD: Beethoven: Triple Concerto(I.) / Schumann: Cello Concerto / Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations
30▶CD: Shostakovich: Cello Concertos nos. 1 & 2
31▶CD: Boris Tchaikovsky: Suite in D minor / Partita / Cello Concerto
32▶CD: Villa‐Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras, no. 1 / Respighi: Adagio con variazioni / Honegger: Cello Concerto / Strauss: Don Quixote
33▶CD: Shostakovich, Kabalevsky, Khachaturian: Cello Sonatas
34▶CD: Russian Works; Taneyev: Canzona / Myaskovsky: Cello Concerto / Glazunov: Concerto ballata
35▶CD: Tishchenko: Cello Concerto no. 1 / Khachaturian: Concerto-Rhapsody / Toyama: Cello Concerto
36▶CD: World Premieres; Lopes-Graça: Concerto da camera / Knipper: Concerto-Monologue / Weinberg: Cello Concerto(Rozhdestvensky)
37▶CD: Britten: Cello Suites nos. 1 & 2 / Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
38▶CD: In Memoriam Alexander Dedyukhin; Chopin: Cello Sonata / Introduction and Polonaise brillante / Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata / Shaporin: Pieces
39▶CD: Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango / Ustvolskaya: Grand Duet for Cello and Piano / Schnittke: Cello Sonata no. 2 / Epilogue to the Ballet Peer Gynt
40▼CD: The Last Audio Interview( Produced by Jon Tolansky)
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1The Last Audio Interview: "on being Shostakovich's student at the Moscow Conservatory" / " on the Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40"
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky8:01
2The Last Audio Interview: Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40: IV. Allegro (excerpt)
cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
piano:
Dmitri Shostakovich (Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich, pianist, grandson of the composer)
partial recording of:
Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40: IV. Allegro
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer) (in 1934)
part of:
Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40
Dmitri Shostakovich0:50
3The Last Audio Interview: "on Shostakovich as a pianist" / "on the Cello Sonata in D minor. op. 40" (cont'd)
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky0:49
4The Last Audio Interview: Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40: I. Allegro non troppo - Largo (excerpt)
cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
piano:
Dmitri Shostakovich (Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich, pianist, grandson of the composer)
partial recording of:
Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40: I. Allegro non troppo – Largo
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer) (in 1934)
part of:
Cello Sonata in D minor, op. 40
Dmitri Shostakovich1:34
5The Last Audio Interview: "on Shostakovich's comments on dynamic markings"
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky0:53
6The Last Audio Interview: Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: V. Allegretto (excerpt)
orchestra:
National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC (Washington, D.C. – refer to the UK one instead for musical theatre recordings)
conductor:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
partial recording of:
Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65: V. Allegretto
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer) (in 1943)
publisher:
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Ltd
part of:
Symphony no. 8 in C minor, op. 65
Dmitri Shostakovich1:12
7The Last Audio Interview: "on Shostakovich's advocacy of Rostropovich's conducting" / "on the First Cello Concerto"
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky4:43
8The Last Audio Interview: Cello Concerto no. 1 in E-flat, op. 107: IV. Allegro con moto (excerpt)
cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
orchestra:
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor:
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
partial recording of:
Cello Concerto no. 1 in E-flat major, op. 107: IV. Allegro con moto
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer) (in 1959)
part of:
Cello Concerto no. 1 in E-flat major, op. 107
Dmitri Shostakovich0:38
9The Last Audio Interview: "on the Second Cello Concerto"
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky1:08
10The Last Audio Interview: Cello Concerto no. 2 in G, op. 126: I. Largo (excerpt)
cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
orchestra:
USSR State Symphony Orchestra (State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, “Evgeny Svetlanov” / GASO)
conductor:
Evgeny Svetlanov (Yevgeny Svetlanov, conductor)
partial recording of:
Cello Concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 126: I. Largo
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer) (in 1966)
part of:
Cello Concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 126
Dmitri Shostakovich0:42
11The Last Audio Interview: "on the Second Cello Concerto" (cont'd)
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky0:39
12The Last Audio Interview: Cello Concerto no. 2 in G, op. 126: II. Allegretto (excerpt)
cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
orchestra:
USSR State Symphony Orchestra (State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, “Evgeny Svetlanov” / GASO)
conductor:
Evgeny Svetlanov (Yevgeny Svetlanov, conductor)
partial recording of:
Cello Concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 126: II. Scherzo: Allegretto
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer) (in 1966)
part of:
Cello Concerto no. 2 in G minor, op. 126
Dmitri Shostakovich1:39
13The Last Audio Interview: "on the Symphonies" / "on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky14:30
14The Last Audio Interview: Lady Macbeth on Mtsensk District, op. 29: Act I (excerpt)
soprano vocals:
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
tenor vocals:
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
orchestra:
London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO; The Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra)
conductor:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
partial recording of:
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда: Действие первое
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)
librettist:
Александр Прейс and Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)
part of:
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда, op. 29 (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, op. 29)
Dmitri Shostakovich1:52
15The Last Audio Interview: "on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" (cont'd)
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky3:34
16The Last Audio Interview: Lady Macbeth on Mtsensk District, op. 29: Act IV (excerpt)
bass-baritone vocals:
Leslie Fyson (baritone)
choir vocals:
Ambrosian Opera Chorus (aka Ambrosian Opera Chorus / Ambrosian Chorus / Ambrosian Choir)
soprano vocals:
Lynda Richardson
orchestra:
London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO; The Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra)
conductor:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
partial recording of:
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда: Действие четвертое
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)
librettist:
Александр Прейс and Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)
part of:
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда, op. 29 (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, op. 29)
Dmitri Shostakovich1:43
17The Last Audio Interview: "on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" (cont'd)
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky3:54
18The Last Audio Interview: Rayok (excerpt - opening)
piano:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
bass vocals:
Julian Rodescu (bass singer)
vocals:
Members of the Choral Arts Society of Washington
partial recording of:
Anti-Formalist Rayok
lyricist:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer) (in 1948)
Dmitri Shostakovich0:50
19The Last Audio Interview: Narration "on Rayok"
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky1:45
20The Last Audio Interview: Rayok (excerpt)
piano:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor)
bass vocals:
Eric Halfvarson (operatic bass)
vocals:
Members of the Choral Arts Society of Washington
partial recording of:
Anti-Formalist Rayok
lyricist:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)
composer:
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer) (in 1948)
Dmitri Shostakovich3:08
21The Last Audio Interview: "In Shostakovich's presence"
spoken vocals:
Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor) (in 2006-06) and Jon Tolansky (in 2006-06)
Mtislav Rostropovich, Jon Tolansky2:21
22Chant pour Slava
spoken vocals:
Louis Aragon (French poet)
Louis Aragon13:38
41▶DVD: Dvořák: Cello Concerto / Saint‐Saëns: Cello Concerto no. 1(Giulini)
42▶DVD
43▶DVD