Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (The Russian Years)

Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (The Russian Years)

Mstislav Rostropovich

Dimitri Shostakovich

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"l had asked the composer’s wife what it would take to make Dmitri write a cello concerto. She replied that one should never beg or ask Shostakovich to write anything. I heeded her advice, and therefore only learnt from the paper the exciting news that he had actually composed a cello concerto. W

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