Sunday, Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. For more than 28 years, the wall completely cut off East Berlin from West Berlin, and its collapse was accompanied by public ...
Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday. He was 80 ...
MOSCOW – Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday.
Astounding as it may appear, Mstislav Rostropovich will celebrate his 68th birthday on Monday. He hardly looks his age. As with so many other lions in winter, the years seem only to have intensified ...
Moscow - Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, ...
from Bach and Vivaldi to Shostakovich, Britten, Bernstein, Messiaen and Dutilleux. He has recorded virtually every major cello concerto, joined in chamber recordings from Rameau to Schubert to ...
Netflix’s much-talked-about musical has hit the screens, and a scene of Bach’s Prelude in C is raising more than a few eyebrows. Much ink has already been spilled documenting the dubious delights of ...
Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist and conductor who died Friday at 80, was one of the great titans among instrumentalists of the 20th Century. Fortunately he left behind a huge discography ...
Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor considered by many to be one of the finest virtuosos of his instrument in the last half of the 20th century, has died. He was 80. Rostropovich, who ...
Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died.
MOSCOW Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died today. He ...