Dvořák & Schumann Cello Concertos
Msitslav Rostropovich
R.P.O / Adrian Boult
Leningrad/Rozhdestvensky
(Dvořák) “No praise can be too high for Rostropovich’s performance; not only for its actual playing, technically, but for the poetry, the true inwardness of his expressiveness … I may perhaps be allowed now to say that no performance I have ever heard has given me deeper enjoyment.” (Schumann) “nothing detached or remote about Rostropovich’s playing: indeed his is a reading that is totally committed. He plays with his usual authority and wealth of tone and with great expressive intensity.”
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104 (38:33)[1] I. Allegro 14:32[2] II. Adagio ma non troppo 11:38[3] III. Finale. Allegro moderato 12:22
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129 (25:20)[4] Nicht zu schnell 12:09[5] Langsam 4:59[6] Sehr Lebhaft 8:11