Firma Melodiya presents an anniversary release dedicated to the 90th birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich. The musician of genius played a colossal part in the history of music art of this country and the whole world. Knowing about the range of his activities, the role of a performing soloist and a purely musical domain were too small for his mighty talent and temperament. Nevertheless, there were only few who enriched the cello literature with new works, who changed the view of solo cello art and who gave himself up to Music as he much as he did, for without Music he "could not live and could not breathe". In the early 1950s, the glory of Slava (a hypocoristic of 'Mstislav' and the Russian for 'glory') Rostropovich swept the musical space of this country, and ten years later they called him Cellist No. 1 and ranked him among the world's greatest musicians. The fact that Rostropovich's art was a prerequisite to the interest in cello shown by the leading Soviet composers such as Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Myaskovsky, Khachaturian, Boris Tchaikovsky, Weinberg and many, many others can hardly be overestimated. This set comprises recordings made before 1967. Above all, these are recordings that were first performed by Mstislav Rostropovich (with the recorded premiere of Britten's Cello Symphony conducted by the composer among them). Classical repertoire was as important in his programmes - you will hear live recordings of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, concertos by Dvorak, Lalo and Saint-Saens.
Firma Melodiya presents an anniversary release dedicated to the 90th birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich. The musician of genius played a colossal part in the history of music art of this country and the whole world. Knowing about the range of his activities, the role of a performing soloist and a purely musical domain were too small for his mighty talent and temperament. Nevertheless, there were only few who enriched the cello literature with new works, who changed the view of solo cello art and who gave himself up to Music as he much as he did, for without Music he "could not live and could not breathe". In the early 1950s, the glory of Slava (a hypocoristic of 'Mstislav' and the Russian for 'glory') Rostropovich swept the musical space of this country, and ten years later they called him Cellist No. 1 and ranked him among the world's greatest musicians. The fact that Rostropovich's art was a prerequisite to the interest in cello shown by the leading Soviet composers such as Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Myaskovsky, Khachaturian, Boris Tchaikovsky, Weinberg and many, many others can hardly be overestimated. This set comprises recordings made before 1967. Above all, these are recordings that were first performed by Mstislav Rostropovich (with the recorded premiere of Britten's Cello Symphony conducted by the composer among them). Classical repertoire was as important in his programmes - you will hear live recordings of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, concertos by Dvorak, Lalo and Saint-Saens.
Фирма "Мелодия" представляет юбилейный комплект "Молодой Слава", посвященный 90-летию со дня рождения Мстислава Ростроповича.
Жизнь и судьба этого гениального музыканта - виолончелиста, дирижера, концертмейстера, педагога, композитора и общественного деятеля - сыграли колоссальную роль в истории музыкального искусства нашей страны и мира. Судя по размаху деятельности его могучему таланту и темпераменту было тесно не только в узкой роли солиста-исполнителя, но даже и в чисто музыкальной сфере... И тем не менее мало кто так обогатил виолончельную литературу новыми сочинениями, поменял взгляд на сольное виолончельное искусство, мало кто был так предан Музыке, без которой "не мог ни жить, ни дышать..."
Еще в начале 1950-х годов слава "Славы" Ростроповича стремительно захватила музыкальное пространство нашей страны, а спустя десять лет его уже называли "виолончелистом номер один", причисляли к крупнейшим музыкантам мира. Именно искусство Ростроповича обусловило интерес к виолончели крупнейших композиторов СССР: Шостаковича, Прокофьева, Мясковского, Хачатуряна, Бориса Чайковского, Вайнберга и многих других...
В комплекте записи, осуществленные до 1967 года. Прежде всего, это сочинения, первым исполнителем которых был Мстислав Ростропович (среди них и записанная премьера концертной симфонии Бриттена под управлением автора). Не меньшее место в его программах занимал и классический репертуар - вы услышите "живые" записи "Вариаций на тему рококо" Чайковского, концертов Дворжака, Лало, Сен-Санса. Особый интерес представляют ансамблевые записи артиста при участии ведущих советских музыкантов - Эмиля Гилельса, Леонида Когана и Рудольфа Баршая.
Firma "Melodija" predstavljaet jubilejnyj komplekt "Molodoj Slava", posvjaschennyj 90-letiju so dnja rozhdenija Mstislava Rostropovicha.
Zhizn i sudba etogo genialnogo muzykanta - violonchelista, dirizhera, kontsertmejstera, pedagoga, kompozitora i obschestvennogo dejatelja - sygrali kolossalnuju rol v istorii muzykalnogo iskusstva nashej strany i mira. Sudja po razmakhu dejatelnosti ego moguchemu talantu i temperamentu bylo tesno ne tolko v uzkoj roli solista-ispolnitelja, no dazhe i v chisto muzykalnoj sfere... I tem ne menee malo kto tak obogatil violonchelnuju literaturu novymi sochinenijami, pomenjal vzgljad na solnoe violonchelnoe iskusstvo, malo kto byl tak predan Muzyke, bez kotoroj "ne mog ni zhit, ni dyshat..."
Esche v nachale 1950-kh godov slava "Slavy" Rostropovicha stremitelno zakhvatila muzykalnoe prostranstvo nashej strany, a spustja desjat let ego uzhe nazyvali "violonchelistom nomer odin", prichisljali k krupnejshim muzykantam mira. Imenno iskusstvo Rostropovicha obuslovilo interes k violoncheli krupnejshikh kompozitorov SSSR: Shostakovicha, Prokofeva, Mjaskovskogo, Khachaturjana, Borisa Chajkovskogo, Vajnberga i mnogikh drugikh...
V komplekte zapisi, osuschestvlennye do 1967 goda. Prezhde vsego, eto sochinenija, pervym ispolnitelem kotorykh byl Mstislav Rostropovich (sredi nikh i zapisannaja premera kontsertnoj simfonii Brittena pod upravleniem avtora). Ne menshee mesto v ego programmakh zanimal i klassicheskij repertuar - vy uslyshite "zhivye" zapisi "Variatsij na temu rokoko" Chajkovskogo, kontsertov Dvorzhaka, Lalo, Sen-Sansa. Osobyj interes predstavljajut ansamblevye zapisi artista pri uchastii veduschikh sovetskikh muzykantov - Emilja Gilelsa, Leonida Kogana i Rudolfa Barshaja.
