In Oct. 1959, when I was 17, we attended a Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Concert, conducted by Ormandy. It was on a Monday. The previous Friday, Rostropovich had done the US premier of this concerto, in the same hall. He had spent the weekend in his hotel nursing a cold, but when he heard that Ormandy was doing a youth concert, he expressed his liking for young audiences, asked if he could play. Ormandy said yes, and so we got to see this. We were a bunch of preppies, mostly who knew little of music, but we had the feeling that we had seen something very special and cheered wildly at the end. I have been a Rostropovich fanatic ever since.
Rostrpovich performs Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto writeno FOR HIM and dedicated to HIM! He learned and MEMORIZED in just three days, and then came to Shostakovich's dacha to play it!
Same story with Dutilleux's "Tout un monde lointain". Rostropovitch compensated his lack of time to learn new repertoire (he has an insane schedule) by an insane capacity to ingest it.
Can we just take some time to acknowledge the excellent, simple camera work and editing. Whoever was in charge knew the score so well, and didn't try any funny business..
Given how usually the sound recordings were saved but the visuals got trashed or recycled soon after any broadcasts, even if this thing was intended to be saved, they must’ve just banked on making damned sure they didn’t miss one lick of a bow or press of a valve when it emphasizes the right movement. It’s pretty much old school flawless stagecraft brought to the film/television medium, like how Rod Serling would do his teleplays for “Twilight Zone.”
I love Shostakovich since I was a teenager - the music is so uneasy, melancholic, intense and thrillingly austere, but with a dynamism that never wavers.
I was present at the Kennedy Center on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Shostakovich, when Rostropovich played this. When people speak of the privilege of being present, I know what is meant. It was an unforgettable experience, one that I wished would never end.
Шостакович - гений! А ведь его музыку запрещали в России. Критики говорили, что это не музыка а "набор звуков", но не смотря на непонииание со строны критиков Шостакович стал одним из самый великих русских композиторов!!!
You are so right. I was lucky enough to attend ALL his series of nine concerts at Festival Hall in 1965. A treasured memory, but at least we have the recordings, and this one is superb.
@@thamesweb “International Concert Hall” (broadcast on 16 Dec 61) (25 Nov?) 1961 VIDEO BBC Television Centre Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Charles Groves led by Hugh Maguire SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.107 DVD video: (Mar03) E.M.I. DVA49 0120.9.
Thanks a million!!! This is a wonderful recording. The cameras, the rhythm, the tensions! Shostakovich's concerto is captivating me every time. Slowly being bewitched!
That horn just rips through those lines in the first movement, doesn't it? If any of you've ever picked up a horn, you know how damned hard that is. Also props to the piccolo player for not pissing me off.
I was in the audience when Rostropovich gave the western premiere of this concerto with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in about 1959 (I think). Almost as exciting as Rostropovich's performance, was the big parade of top Soviet and American composers led, of course by Shostakovich, walking on stage. You can imagine the thrill for the audience of hearing those opening notes for the very first time!
I heard Rostropovich several times during his best performing years. He was absolutely unbelievably great. To hear him live at that time in London was incredible. I never heard another cellist like him.
What about Yo Yo Ma? His perform of this cello concert is also great. In fact, I feel it better (with all the respect that I deserve to master Rostropovich).
It's unbelievable that we can access such a historic performance with such little effort. Rostropovich is arguably the most influential cellist ever, and we get to see his brilliant, LIVE interpretation of Shostakovich's 1st cello concerto at hardly any cost. While I love that so many people have the opportunity to see this, it almost feels too good for a platform like youtube.
Right about after 13:44 I swear that brief spat of cello-piano-brass solos I felt like it was the sound of a mournful ghost who’s forgotten where it once lived and now it’s just tapping and clicking at the windows and doors of random houses in the village dark, trying to find where it should haunt. Chilly but gorgeous work.
There has never been another cellist like Rostropovich. I heard him in London live during his best playing years. He was unbelievably great. He was a true cellist genius.
I love these historical recordings...it puts us modern listeners right there in the audience. And this piece...WOW...the way Shostakovitch treats the cello almost like a percussion instrument is just amazing. Phenomenal piece.
Rostro himself said that only Jackie Du Pre was his equal. Here's the doomed yet immortal Jackie playing her beloved Elgar cello concerto: th-cam.com/video/OPhkZW_jwc0/w-d-xo.html
Even 32 years after the tragic fall of the Soviet Union, the cultural war - and the class struggle - remain ongoing. Shall the west let sleeping dogs lie? No. Apparently the profit incentive is so strong amongst liberals that dystopian publishing conglomerates do takedown requests on the cultural heritage of the Soviet Union - on the intellectual properties of one member of the Bolshevik party - a deeply humanistic and proletarian person - who believed that all good things, and art especially, are the common property of all mankind: Dmitri Shostakovich
So great. The 2nd movement bleak, as Shostakovich wanted, not ponderously slow and overwrought with huge and constant romantic style vibrato, as most cellist play it. Also Rostropovich maintains the level of sound throughout each bow, be it frog to tip or vice versa, like no other, without the seasick swells. Slava- who will ever be your equal?
He was an incredibly great cellist. I heard him during his best years in London a number of times. During those years he was super human. His amazing playing affected my life as a cellist. I have never heard anyone quite like that. Of course there were always fantastic cellists out there.
my friend who’s a senior at my school is playing this tomorrow (as the cello soloist) for our local youth orchestra which i am also a part of, albeit in a lower ensemble. unfortunately i’m not able to go to his performance, but I do wish him the best luck in performing such a prestigious piece!
When I was a kid learning cello my mom plucked the Everest 3342 recording of this and the Dvorak concerto out of a sale bin at a record store. I found both sides mesmerizing and played them continually, and then I'd corral all the kids in my section and make them listen to 15:00 until the clarinet came in (in my recording, it was slightly sharp, and all I could imagine was the player dropping their jaw trying to make pitch!). I adore this concerto. Rostropovich was so good to Shostakovich...like a son to him in a way, just very devoted. The second concerto is completely different. In places it sounds like a circus. However, in Soviet Russia one had to maneuver artistically in order to avoid running afoul of the authorities and being sent to Siberia or worse. Shostakovich ruined his health and happiness trying not to be arrested, despite being the greatest Soviet (or, for that matter, Russian) composer of all time...even including Stravinsky, who I really dig.
I saw this man live in Vancouver, B.C. His playing was so spell binding I was transported to an understanding of what great artistry is. Absolutely breathtaking!
If the last note of the cadenza isn't a scream of desparation I don't know what is. Phenomenal concerto, phenomenal performance. Sir Charles Groves, LSO (leader Hugh Maguire), BBC Studios recording
@@mikemurray2027 Brilliant argument. I hadn't considered that. Maybe pick up a book about the life of musicians and artists in the USSR. Shostakovich specifically. They lived in constant fear. Many just dissapeared. Rostropovich fled to America in the 70s and was banned from returning to his home country. Musicians in the Soviet bloc were banned from participating in events he was involved in. You don't know what you're talking about
Favorite part at 22:26 when he glances over at conductor because he knows exactly whcih note the orchestra is supposed to start, then a few seconds later hits that high note and pulls bow back with masterful force.
Muhteşem! Hazırlayan ve sunanlara minnettarım bu videoları.Tabii ki izlediğim eserin bestecisi ve yorumcularına da Allahtan Rahmet Nuru mükafatı diliyorum Aziz Ruhları için.
I feel prvileged to have heard him from 1975 until 1993 in various programmes around europe. Certainly a most fascinating musician and the most influential cellist of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Thank you,slava
This is an absolute high when it comes to many aspects …. The music and performance of course, but also the the excellent way it is presented, the filming in black and white reflects the hopelessness etc.
Yeah dude, i'm a 17 year old cellist and I just started this. It just takes alot of work and you need to be committed to playing, and that commitment will take you places you'd never have dreamed of going. I started to get my shit together after I played the Saint Saens concerto when I was 16, and then I just kept going and going and now i'm here. Just saying, don't skip out on etudes. Popper and Piatti really helped me with technique.
@@emerald6597 coming from someone who also is playing a *fun* game of catch-up, if you have a good teacher put enough dedication into it, and want it desperately enough, you can catch up and even outplay kids your age :)
With all due respect to Mr. Rostropovich, who was insanely talended, I can't help but think he looks like Dr. Eggman from Sonic with his long arms. More seriously, this is a beautiful performance, and extremely well recorded for the time.
I too was at the US premier at the Academy of Music sitting in the Pit.The Afternoon of the concert Rostropovich visited Settlement Music School in South Philly and he grabbed me(Paul Weinberg) and Judy Dorph(we were both studying Cello with Joseph Druian at Settlement) for a photo. Unfortunately, the photo didn't come out). One other thing about Rostropovich. He was very much a man who detested the Soviet regime and was treated shabbily by it-reduced to playing the cello on a tour boat in the Caspian Sea, before he left Russia for the US. A great cellist, musician and human being.
Glorious. Amazed that this has been here since 2012 and the details of this performance remain stubbornly out of the Description field. Namely, the year performed, performance venue, the name of the conductor and orchestra, and any other details of possible historical interest. This kind of content is YTs saving grace. It should do more to protect and promote it.
Absolutely electrifying! No wonder DDS loved Slava so much! This performance makes the other versions I've heard so far on utub seem kind of pathetic (though I certainly welcome all interpretations of this great piece). Admiration & gratitude to Sir Charles Groves & the London Symphony Orchestra musicians - and the recordists from EMI. I'm gonna take a long break before listening to any other music.
@@anastasiapopov7250 that's really cool! My mother studied in the st. Petersburg conservatory in Russia and has met rostropovich as well. She studied under one of his close colleagues
Среди музыкантов тех времён, на мой взгляд, самым совершенным был Растрапович! Сам Шостакович мог делать замечания скрипачу Ойстраху, когда тот играл его музыку. А, вот, Растраповичу никогда не делал.
Don't get dismotivated, you're still young, you can easily have enought time of training to become a great cellist! My case is much more worrisome, I started violin classes when I was 22, today I'm 24! And still I train everyday to have my chance in the professional world as a musician. I believe when you love what you do, it will definitely be worth for you in your life.
It takes practice. I thought like that at first but then my teacher restored my confidence. I know this sounds stale, but practice makes perfect. Keep working at it! I'm also a 15 year old cellist with similar aspirations.
In Oct. 1959, when I was 17, we attended a Philadelphia Orchestra Youth Concert, conducted by Ormandy. It was on a Monday. The previous Friday, Rostropovich had done the US premier of this concerto, in the same hall. He had spent the weekend in his hotel nursing a cold, but when he heard that Ormandy was doing a youth concert, he expressed his liking for young audiences, asked if he could play. Ormandy said yes, and so we got to see this. We were a bunch of preppies, mostly who knew little of music, but we had the feeling that we had seen something very special and cheered wildly at the end. I have been a Rostropovich fanatic ever since.
That’s an amazing story
@@esthershin9690 It was an amazing experience.
Rostrpovich performs Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto writeno FOR HIM and dedicated to HIM! He learned and MEMORIZED in just three days, and then came to Shostakovich's dacha to play it!
That's how long he needed to marry his wife after meeting her
Actually one day
Leí que fue en 4 días
Same story with Dutilleux's "Tout un monde lointain". Rostropovitch compensated his lack of time to learn new repertoire (he has an insane schedule) by an insane capacity to ingest it.
Thanks for information!
I hope someday could his magnificent masterpieces on high quality versions.
Can we just take some time to acknowledge the excellent, simple camera work and editing. Whoever was in charge knew the score so well, and didn't try any funny business..
truly
Given how usually the sound recordings were saved but the visuals got trashed or recycled soon after any broadcasts, even if this thing was intended to be saved, they must’ve just banked on making damned sure they didn’t miss one lick of a bow or press of a valve when it emphasizes the right movement. It’s pretty much old school flawless stagecraft brought to the film/television medium, like how Rod Serling would do his teleplays for “Twilight Zone.”
agree! love this piece and the power of the piccolos
и Вы правы, и ребята комментаторы. приятно, что у Вас есть хороший вкус.
bro i didn't even know you could do this 5:00 back then
I love Shostakovich since I was a teenager - the music is so uneasy, melancholic, intense and thrillingly austere, but with a dynamism that never wavers.
I was present at the Kennedy Center on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Shostakovich, when Rostropovich played this. When people speak of the privilege of being present, I know what is meant. It was an unforgettable experience, one that I wished would never end.
Шостакович - гений! А ведь его музыку запрещали в России. Критики говорили, что это не музыка а "набор звуков", но не смотря на непонииание со строны критиков Шостакович стал одним из самый великих русских композиторов!!!
It's a shame Rostropovich died before I was old enough to appreciate his skill and genius.
You are so right. I was lucky enough to attend ALL his series of nine concerts at Festival Hall in 1965. A treasured memory, but at least we have the recordings, and this one is superb.
@PurelyAfrican He died in 2007, which was 13 years ago
I wasnt even born then
The conductor is Sir Charles Groves, The recording is made in London in 1960.
Leader (Concert master) is Hugh Maguire so orchestra is LSO (unless after 1962 in which case the BBCSO)
@@thamesweb “International Concert Hall” (broadcast on 16 Dec 61)
(25 Nov?) 1961 VIDEO BBC Television Centre
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Charles Groves
led by Hugh Maguire
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No.1 in E flat Op.107
DVD video: (Mar03) E.M.I. DVA49 0120.9.
Greetings to all. Thank you for sharing your beautiful knowledge on the conductor, the name change of the orchestra and the list of resources.
Thanks a million!!!
This is a wonderful recording. The cameras, the rhythm, the tensions! Shostakovich's concerto is captivating me every time. Slowly being bewitched!
@@pegalob Thank you very much for posting this information!! Incredible musicians all.
Whoever shot this must had dreamt of becoming a movie director! I felt like watching a movie by Hitchhock.
YES! This is a perfect description!
I love hearing all the different versions of this concerto.
Agreed 👍👍👍
Me too
Yes but this is Original.
That is the magic of music
That horn just rips through those lines in the first movement, doesn't it? If any of you've ever picked up a horn, you know how damned hard that is.
Also props to the piccolo player for not pissing me off.
The piccolo’s goal is to play and not make anyone mad 😂
I was in the audience when Rostropovich gave the western premiere of this concerto with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in about 1959 (I think). Almost as exciting as Rostropovich's performance, was the big parade of top Soviet and American composers led, of course by Shostakovich, walking on stage. You can imagine the thrill for the audience of hearing those opening notes for the very first time!
How lucky, that must be such an amazing memory!
That was the Friday before I was there on Monday. It was in fall 1959.
00:22 I. Allegretto
06:36 II. Moderato
17:28 III. Cadenza - Attacca
22:27 IV. Allegro con moto
the single horn is just brilliant!
I never use bad language in public but this is one fucken astonishing performance by Rostropovich! I am just blown away!
I heard Rostropovich several times during his best performing years. He was absolutely unbelievably great. To hear him live at that time in London was incredible. I never heard another cellist like him.
I agree, however, try listening to Anner Bijlsma
What about Yo Yo Ma? His perform of this cello concert is also great. In fact, I feel it better (with all the respect that I deserve to master Rostropovich).
@@anastasiapopov7250 wow, may I ask what is your father's name?
How lucky! Those must be precious memories
@@francinediva not in the same league - not even close
It's unbelievable that we can access such a historic performance with such little effort. Rostropovich is arguably the most influential cellist ever, and we get to see his brilliant, LIVE interpretation of Shostakovich's 1st cello concerto at hardly any cost. While I love that so many people have the opportunity to see this, it almost feels too good for a platform like youtube.
gutenburg revolution, really
we pay the cost by watching tonns of ads on youtube
this platform is not a charity, it generates profit
Yana Stepaniuk True, but I find it such an insignificant cost.
Ben Meitzen yes, in case of this video I agree
Here's Jackie, whom Rostro himself said was his only equal: th-cam.com/video/OPhkZW_jwc0/w-d-xo.html
Right about after 13:44 I swear that brief spat of cello-piano-brass solos I felt like it was the sound of a mournful ghost who’s forgotten where it once lived and now it’s just tapping and clicking at the windows and doors of random houses in the village dark, trying to find where it should haunt. Chilly but gorgeous work.
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH FOREVER!!!
Yes
26:45 the famous bow grip!
Wow, I haven't noticed! Thanks :)))))
what i wouldn't give to be at that concert...
There has never been another cellist like Rostropovich. I heard him in London live during his best playing years. He was unbelievably great. He was a true cellist genius.
👏👏👏Браво великому советскому композитору Дмитрию Шостаковичу!!!!!
Top 3 composers for me!😁
this video is a real treasure
I love these historical recordings...it puts us modern listeners right there in the audience. And this piece...WOW...the way Shostakovitch treats the cello almost like a percussion instrument is just amazing. Phenomenal piece.
23:32 oh my goodness, the clarity is just amazing
Rostro himself said that only Jackie Du Pre was his equal. Here's the doomed yet immortal Jackie playing her beloved Elgar cello concerto: th-cam.com/video/OPhkZW_jwc0/w-d-xo.html
I’m glad this video is back up. I needed it when I was trying to fly to Chicago to audition for DePaul, but it got a copyright strike 😔
Even 32 years after the tragic fall of the Soviet Union, the cultural war - and the class struggle - remain ongoing. Shall the west let sleeping dogs lie? No. Apparently the profit incentive is so strong amongst liberals that dystopian publishing conglomerates do takedown requests on the cultural heritage of the Soviet Union - on the intellectual properties of one member of the Bolshevik party - a deeply humanistic and proletarian person - who believed that all good things, and art especially, are the common property of all mankind: Dmitri Shostakovich
So great. The 2nd movement bleak, as Shostakovich wanted, not ponderously slow and overwrought with huge and constant romantic style vibrato, as most cellist play it. Also Rostropovich maintains the level of sound throughout each bow, be it frog to tip or vice versa, like no other, without the seasick swells. Slava- who will ever be your equal?
He was an incredibly great cellist. I heard him during his best years in London a number of times. During those years he was super human. His amazing playing affected my life as a cellist. I have never heard anyone quite like that. Of course there were always fantastic cellists out there.
my friend who’s a senior at my school is playing this tomorrow (as the cello soloist) for our local youth orchestra which i am also a part of, albeit in a lower ensemble. unfortunately i’m not able to go to his performance, but I do wish him the best luck in performing such a prestigious piece!
When I was a kid learning cello my mom plucked the Everest 3342 recording of this and the Dvorak concerto out of a sale bin at a record store. I found both sides mesmerizing and played them continually, and then I'd corral all the kids in my section and make them listen to 15:00 until the clarinet came in (in my recording, it was slightly sharp, and all I could imagine was the player dropping their jaw trying to make pitch!).
I adore this concerto. Rostropovich was so good to Shostakovich...like a son to him in a way, just very devoted. The second concerto is completely different. In places it sounds like a circus. However, in Soviet Russia one had to maneuver artistically in order to avoid running afoul of the authorities and being sent to Siberia or worse. Shostakovich ruined his health and happiness trying not to be arrested, despite being the greatest Soviet (or, for that matter, Russian) composer of all time...even including Stravinsky, who I really dig.
Rostropovich, the epitome of cello talent and genius
Timeless! Moving! Happy Rostropovich's birthday :D Favorite cello concerto of all time~!
Shostakovich leads us to all kind of feelings.
I saw this man live in Vancouver, B.C. His playing was so spell binding I was transported to an understanding of what great artistry is. Absolutely breathtaking!
If the last note of the cadenza isn't a scream of desparation I don't know what is. Phenomenal concerto, phenomenal performance. Sir Charles Groves, LSO (leader Hugh Maguire), BBC Studios recording
Yes, it must have been hell living well, in a dacha, creating music with people like Rostropovich...
@@mikemurray2027 You don't know much about the Soviet Union do you?
More than you Aidan, that's for sure.
@@mikemurray2027 Brilliant argument. I hadn't considered that. Maybe pick up a book about the life of musicians and artists in the USSR. Shostakovich specifically. They lived in constant fear. Many just dissapeared. Rostropovich fled to America in the 70s and was banned from returning to his home country. Musicians in the Soviet bloc were banned from participating in events he was involved in. You don't know what you're talking about
With Barry Tuckwell on horn.
7:15 There is yet another Rostropovich sitting in the orchestra!
Thought the same haha!
fantastic !!!!
Феноменально во всем...
absolutely wonderful
How they superimpose the two videos at 5:04 is pretty cool!
Fire and brilliance. Astonishing purity of tone in the slow movement!
This performance is fantastic and still one of my favourite videos!
THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So awesome !
So glad this video is back up! :D
💯 *You can see life in new colors*
*THANK YOU , Dmitry Dmitrievich*
*Shostakovich* 🔥
*THANK YOU VERY MUCH , MAESTRO!* 💥
Favorite part at 22:26 when he glances over at conductor because he knows exactly whcih note the orchestra is supposed to start, then a few seconds later hits that high note and pulls bow back with masterful force.
Magnifique !
I. Allegretto, 0:22
II. Moderato, 6:39
III. Cadenza, 17:32
IV. Allegro Con Moto, 22:28
Maravilloso!
Legend.
This recording is great! I was at YoYoma’s performance with BSO yesterday.
Feel grateful for this music.
I was there on Saturday!
Thank you!
Best video in youtube history hands down.
saw mayiski playing this the other day and had no choice but to start liking shostakovich. this is brilliant.
Muhteşem! Hazırlayan ve sunanlara minnettarım bu videoları.Tabii ki izlediğim eserin bestecisi ve yorumcularına da Allahtan Rahmet Nuru mükafatı diliyorum Aziz Ruhları için.
I feel prvileged to have heard him from 1975 until 1993 in various programmes around europe.
Certainly a most fascinating musician and the most influential cellist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
Thank you,slava
Great!
4:54 I saved this for myself. I love this part.
Same here, loved it
un concerto joué divinement , les musiciens sont en harmonie avec la musique trop méconnue de dimitri chostakostavitch
Спасибо! Замечательно!
Планка критерий начинает подниматься! Здорово!
It leaves me breathless
Perfektes Cellospiel!
Incredible.
Beautiful vid. Rostro is scorching hot. Love the solo shots. This is first class all the way. Thanks for uploading.
Beyond words! Just listen and absorb this greatness; then throw to dumpster all "stars" and starlets.
ESTÁS VIVO ROSTROPOVICH ETERNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Wow ! and Wow again.
Nice brisk tempo in the first movement. I was expecting a very slow second but was glad that the flow continued..
He was so good! I'm shook.
This is an absolute high when it comes to many aspects …. The music and performance of course, but also the the excellent way it is presented, the filming in black and white reflects the hopelessness etc.
That's me on the clarinet at 22:36
we still don't forgive you
You wish - not even close bra.
@Adolf Hitler Don't forget your 4pm appointment with Satan
Amazing
Yeah dude, i'm a 17 year old cellist and I just started this. It just takes alot of work and you need to be committed to playing, and that commitment will take you places you'd never have dreamed of going. I started to get my shit together after I played the Saint Saens concerto when I was 16, and then I just kept going and going and now i'm here. Just saying, don't skip out on etudes. Popper and Piatti really helped me with technique.
Good man, keep on with discipline, like a monk.
15 here and way behind everyone else my age :(
Here's the great Emanuel Feuermann playing Dvorak and Popper:
th-cam.com/video/D1NMBh47mGw/w-d-xo.html
@@emerald6597 if you commit and practice, you’ll be ahead most people. but cello needs to become your life!
@@emerald6597 coming from someone who also is playing a *fun* game of catch-up, if you have a good teacher put enough dedication into it, and want it desperately enough, you can catch up and even outplay kids your age :)
With all due respect to Mr. Rostropovich, who was insanely talended, I can't help but think he looks like Dr. Eggman from Sonic with his long arms.
More seriously, this is a beautiful performance, and extremely well recorded for the time.
Two years later, he played the complete Bach cello suites at the Edinburgh Festival - phenomenal artistry and skill.
Kyrill Rodin tem, também, uma excelente performance dessa peça, gravada em CD.
I was lucky to have listened to Mstislav in concert and it was thrilling. His mastery of the cello is beyond comparison.
4:55 to 5:34 is the most iconic for allegro in my opinion
Yes. It is very powerful
Classic
I too was at the US premier at the Academy of Music sitting in the Pit.The Afternoon of the concert Rostropovich visited Settlement Music School in South Philly and he grabbed me(Paul Weinberg) and Judy Dorph(we were both studying Cello with Joseph Druian at Settlement) for a photo. Unfortunately, the photo didn't come out). One other thing about Rostropovich. He was very much a man who detested the Soviet regime and was treated shabbily by it-reduced to playing the cello on a tour boat in the Caspian Sea, before he left Russia for the US. A great cellist, musician and human being.
Бог-инструмента,слияние за гранью фантастики-единый организм!
Очень хорошо ❤
Glorious. Amazed that this has been here since 2012 and the details of this performance remain stubbornly out of the Description field. Namely, the year performed, performance venue, the name of the conductor and orchestra, and any other details of possible historical interest. This kind of content is YTs saving grace. It should do more to protect and promote it.
What a treasure this is
Absolutely electrifying! No wonder DDS loved Slava so much! This performance makes the other versions I've heard so far on utub seem kind of pathetic (though I certainly welcome all interpretations of this great piece). Admiration & gratitude to Sir Charles Groves & the London Symphony Orchestra musicians - and the recordists from EMI. I'm gonna take a long break before listening to any other music.
Великолепно!!! Побольше бы записей Мстислава Ростроповича
Я сама виолончелистка,записи Мстислава Леопольдовича для меня самые ценные
Grande Rostropovich. Una interpretación inolvidable y un concierto verdaderamente sublime!
He is the best!!:):):)genius
@@anastasiapopov7250 that's really cool! My mother studied in the st. Petersburg conservatory in Russia and has met rostropovich as well. She studied under one of his close colleagues
Este concierto fue compuesto para él, no hay duda
This concert was composite for him, no doubt
Среди музыкантов тех времён, на мой взгляд, самым совершенным был Растрапович! Сам Шостакович мог делать замечания скрипачу Ойстраху, когда тот играл его музыку. А, вот, Растраповичу никогда не делал.
⁰
It wasn't even when I attended it back in the '50s.☺
The first time you hear it it doesn't sound to great but if you listen again it suddenly becomes very powerfull
The first note (until the last one) I hear sounds terrific.
A melody mellow played on a cello.
Rostropovich! Lui è IL violoncellista!
watches with eyebrows raised...incredible
Kind of ironic how hitler is playing the clarinet in the back at 22:36
That's not Hitler---it's his evil twin!!
Kinda happy there's no Stalin in the orchestra- he wouldn't survive his favorite Gorgian song "Suliko" in the finale!
Looks more like Charlie Chaplin,,,
JAJAJAJAJA
hahahhaha lol
Don't get dismotivated, you're still young, you can easily have enought time of training to become a great cellist!
My case is much more worrisome, I started violin classes when I was 22, today I'm 24! And still I train everyday to have my chance in the professional world as a musician. I believe when you love what you do, it will definitely be worth for you in your life.
It takes practice. I thought like that at first but then my teacher restored my confidence. I know this sounds stale, but practice makes perfect. Keep working at it! I'm also a 15 year old cellist with similar aspirations.
Well now that you’re 22 how’s it going?