Video duration: 119 seconds
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Mstislav Rostropovich plays the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007. Filmed at the Basilique Sainte Madeleine, Vézelay, Yvonne, France in 1991.
Video duration: 604 seconds
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Prokofiev Sinfonia concertante, in E minor, Op. 125
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
National Orchestra of Monte-Carlo,
Ollu Kamu, Conductor
January 12, 1970
Video duration: 324 seconds
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Rostropovich conducted Vincent Youmans "Tea for Two" orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich at the concert celebrating Seiji Ozawa's 60th birthday
on September 1, 1995.
Video duration: 193 seconds
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(EDIT: April 27th, 2007) WE´LL MISS YOU. THANKS FOR THE MAGIC YOU LEAVE BEHIND.
Mstislav Rostropovich plays Bach´s Suite for Solo Cello in C Major: Bourreé
ORTF, Paris, December 1962
Video duration: 288 seconds
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Rostropovich offered sincere Bach Sarabande in D minor to the thousands of deaths caused by the disastrous earthquake 6 days before the concert, January 1995. Ozawa had not conducted NHK Symphony Orchestra since 1962.
Video duration: 72 seconds
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Suona alcune suite di Bach, tutte in tonalità maggiore, perché è felice. Il muro di Berlino è appena caduto e Rostropovich, il più grande violoncellista dei nostri tempi, improvvisa il suo concerto davanti alle macerie. Così lo ricorderemo oggi e per sempre!
da "Il Blog dei Violinisti"
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