Chopin / Rostropovich / Dedyukhin: Mstislav Rostropovich in Moscow - COMPACT DISCS

Chopin / Rostropovich / Dedyukhin: Mstislav Rostropovich in Moscow - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Mstislav Rostropovich in Moscow Artist: Chopin Rostropovich Dedyukhin Label: Profil G Haenssler Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 881488180626 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019 03 22 Number of Discs: 4 Additional Details: 4 PACK Mstislav Rostropovich (1927 2007) is unquestionably one of the great personalities of the 20th century as a cellist, as a pianist, as a conductor, but also as a politically active citizen, who made use of his

Title: Mstislav Rostropovich in Moscow
Artist: Chopin / Rostropovich / Dedyukhin
Label: Profil - G Haenssler
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 881488180626
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-03-22
Number of Discs: 4
Additional Details: 4 PACK

Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) is unquestionably one of the great personalities of the 20th century - as a cellist, as a pianist, as a conductor, but also as a politically active citizen, who made use of his international artistic renown to help dissidents or strengthen democracies. After it became known abroad that he had written to four Russian newspapers in defense of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, he found it harder to work in the Soviet Union and he and his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, were eventually stripped of their citizenship. Although rehabilitated by Gorbachev and awarded the highest order of merit by Putin, they declined the restoration of citizenship, preferring to remain stateless. The recordings compiled into this set were made when Rostropovich was already famous in the Soviet Union (Stalin Prize 1951, Lenin Prize 1961) but largely unknown in the West. They document the early career of Mstislav Rostropovich, which is of particular significance for the premieres of major works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Kabalevsky.

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