What a bunch of tastless metronomical comments here - "he was old", "feels rushed", "not his piece" etc. It isn't rushing, it's called vigour, energy, fluent musical thought! Somebody even said even "he's rushing because he was old" - well, I have an old recording from USSR times when he was much younger, with some bad orchestra, where he plays so fast the last mov. that violins can't catch him! And you know what - it is such an exciting one :) Slava the best! Even At 70 years he still played great.
The first time I heard a live performance of the Saint-Saens cello concerto No 1 was way back in February 1966 at New York's Carnegie Hall with the London Symphony conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky with Mstislav Rostropovich as the soloist. After the intermission they played the Dvorak Cello Concerto! Boy was I lucky.
Beautiful performance of a gorgeous concerto- an evergreen classic! True the audio is not very good, but one can hear beyond that. thank you for posting. The playing of the La Scala orchestra is exellent- has real character.
What a bunch of tastless metronomical comments here - "he was old", "feels rushed", "not his piece" etc. It isn't rushing, it's called vigour, energy, fluent musical thought! Somebody even said even "he's rushing because he was old" - well, I have an old recording from USSR times when he was much younger, with some bad orchestra, where he plays so fast the last mov. that violins can't catch him! And you know what - it is such an exciting one :) Slava the best! Even At 70 years he still played great.
felt a bit...rushed
70 years old - Rostropovich was born in 1927. I don't believe! Incredible!
i love rostropovich but i don't like how he played this.
I played this in high school, but there's no comparison with the master. I hope I can play this at 70!
The problem is the audio
Unbelievably brillant - especially for a 70 years old Cellist! But maybe he should have chosen a different encore...
The music is gorgeous as is the tone of Rostropovich and the orchestra. A very special performance.
Magnificent performance. R.I.P. Maestro.
This wasn’t really as good as some of his other pieces. Not critisizing him or anything. It still sounds amazing.
The first time I heard a live performance of the Saint-Saens cello concerto No 1 was way back in February 1966 at New York's Carnegie Hall with the London Symphony conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky with Mstislav Rostropovich as the soloist. After the intermission they played the Dvorak Cello Concerto! Boy was I lucky.
это что то фантастическое,гениальное исполнение!все поет,какое наслаждение слушать!великий Ростропович!!!
Многие годы не перестаешь восхищаться талантом великого М.Растроповича.
Es de una sensivilidad exquisita ,realmente Rostropovich es un gran interprete ...no hay palabras para explicar tantas emociones como sugiere
Realmente me quito el sombrero y espero poder llegar a tocar asi algun dia... 👏👏👏
Beautiful performance of a gorgeous concerto- an evergreen classic! True the audio is not very good, but one can hear beyond that. thank you for posting. The playing of the La Scala orchestra is exellent- has real character.
Increíble!!! 👏👏👏
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you
I so love this music