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Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist of the Century - The Complete Warner Recordings is a comprehensive collection featuring the legendary cellist's most celebrated performances, offering high-quality audio and a unique opportunity to experience the artistry that defined a generation.

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Warner Classics marks the 10th anniversary of Mstislav Rostropovich’s death and 90 years since his birth with the deluxe collectors’ box set Cellist of the Century, comprising 40 CDs, 3 DVDs and a 200-page hardback book full of information, insight and rarely-seen photographs.The label was given unprecedented access to Rostropovich’s personal archive and worked closely with his daughters Elena and Olga. The range and variety of music in the box set is nothing short of extraordinary, embracing works by more than 60 composers, from iconic recordings to rarities. A number of the live performances originate from Russian tapes saved from destruction by resourceful Soviet archivists when Rostropovich was exiled from the USSR (1974-1990), and which came back to light in the late 1990s. Another highlight is the complete Bach Cello Suites, presented here in both audio and video versions. The collection also features an exclusive audio interview of Rostropovich recorded by personality Jon Tolansky.The greatest cellist of his time, and a man of proverbial generosity and charisma, Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) remains an influential figure on the world stage. A master of traditional repertoire with a passion for new music, he numbered Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Britten among his many friends. His ardent humanitarianism led to years of exile from the Soviet Union, but he returned in 1990 to aid its transition to democracy. The extraordinary richness of Rostropovich’s life and art is expressed in this magnificent set.Special care has been taken to ensure the highest quality of sound reproduction. Wherever possible, the engineers of Art et Son studios have refined the sound, always with scrupulous respect to the original sources. The analogue recordings originating from EMI and Erato (CD1-15) have been remastered in 24 bit – 96 kHz from the original tapes. These are, therefore, the first recordings where the presence and definition of sound are heard in such detail.Contents: CD1Camille Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1Nikolai Myaskovsky Cello ConcertoCD2Antonín Dvořák: Cello ConcertoCD3Sergei Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertanteSergei Rachmaninov: VocaliseCD4Cello and Piano Recital: Johannes Brahms, Popper · Debussy · ScriabinCD5Ludwig van Beethoven Triple ConcertoCD6Johannes Brahms: Double ConcertoCD7Henri Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain …Witold Lutosławski: Cello ConcertoAndré Jolivet: Cello Concerto No.2CD8Cello and Piano Recital: Richard Strauss Cello Sonata, Ludwig van Beethoven Variations, Op.66 & WoO 45CD9Richard Strauss Don QuixoteCD10Joseph Haydn Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2CD11Robert Schumann Cello ConcertoErnest Bloch SchelomoCD12Antonín Dvořák Cello ConcertoCamille Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1CD13Johannes Brahms Double ConcertoCD14Marcel Landowski Un enfant appelle · La PrisonCD15Antonín Dvořák Cello ConcertoPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Rococo VariationsCD16Krzysztof Penderecki Cello Concerto No.2Cristóbal Halffter Cello Concerto No.2CD17Sergei Prokofiev Sinfonia concertanteDmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1CD18Darius Milhaud Cello Concerto No.1Arthur Honegger Cello ConcertoAlun Hoddinott Noctis EquiNorbert Moret Cello ConcertoCD 19–20Johann Sebastian Bach Cello SuitesCD21Baroque Cello Concertos: Vivaldi · Tartini · C.P.E. BachCD22Cello and Organ Recital; Herbert Tachezi Frescobaldi ; Marcello ; J.S. Bach ; Handel; Caix d’Hervelois ; Rheinberger ; Saint-SaënsCD23Renaud Gagneux TriptyqueRodion Shchedrin Sotto voceCD24Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Three · String Trio · MinuetCD25Alexander Knaifel Make me drunk with your kissesDavid Matthews RomanzaCD26Sofia Gubaidulina The Canticle of the SunDmitri Shostakovich 7 Romances on Verses by BlokCD27Robert Schumann Cello Concerto · Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Rococo VariationsLudwig van Beethoven Triple ConcertoCD28Heitor Villa-Lobos Prelúdio (Modinha)Arthur Honegger Cello Concerto · Ottorino Respighi Adagio con variazioniRichard Strauss Don QuixoteCD29Nikolai Myaskovsky Cello ConcertoAlexander Glazunov Concerto ballataCD30Sergei Prokofiev Cello SonataSinfonia ConcertanteCello ConcertinoCD31Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.1 & 2CD32Benjamin Britten: Cello Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Cello SymphonyCD33Boris Tchaikovsky: Cello Suite Partita, with A. Mamyko ; Y. Godin ; B. Tchaikovsky ; A. Dedyukhin ; I. KhovovCD34Aram Khachaturian Concerto–Rhapsody, with Ana AmintayevaBoris Tishchenko Cello Concerto No.1, with A. Tishchenko Yuzo Toyama Cello ConcertoCD35Lev Knipper Concerto–Monologue · Mieczysław Weinberg Cello ConcertoFernando Lopes-Graça Concerto da cameraCD36Dmitry Kabalevsky Cello SonataKaren Khachaturian Cello SonataDmitri Shostakovich Cello Sonata CD37Recital of Short Pieces & Transcriptions: Debussy · Dvořák · Falla · Fauré · Handel · Milhaud · Popper · Prokofiev ; Schubert · Scriabin · Shaporin · Sinding · R. Strauss · StravinskyCD38Nikolai Myaskovsky Cello SonataFrédéric Chopin Cello Sonata · Introduction and Polonaise brillante (date unknown)Yuri Shaporin Pieces, Op.25 (date unknown)CD39Astor Piazzolla Le Grand TangoGalina Ustvolskaya Grand DuetAlfred Schnittke Cello Sonata No.2 · Epilogue to the ballet Peer GyntCD40Mstislav Rostropovich on Dmitri Shostakovich: The Last Audio InterviewDVD1Antonín Dvořák Cello ConcertoCamille Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1DVD2–3Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suites

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Two Boxes in One - Now in Original Jacket Format
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2017*

The new "Cellist of the Century" box is a combination of two older boxes:EMI: 
  
Mstislav Rostropovich: The Complete EMI Recordings







  
  
     plusWarner: 
  
Mstislav Rostropovich Plays Cello Works







  
  
    A combined total of 35 CDs + 2 DVDs.The "Cellist of the Century" is 40 CDs + 3 DVDs:-- 17 EMI CDs, recorded 1956-1999-- 9 Erato and Teldec CDs, recorded 1968, 1982-1995-- 13 CDs "Rostropovich: The Russian Years" recorded "live" in the Soviet Union 1950-1974 and 1996-- 1 CD Rostropovich interview-- 3 EMI DVDs (Bach Suites + Dvorak & Saint-Saens Concerti)There is one new recording that appears here for the first time:- David Matthews: Romanza for Cello & Small Orchestra, recorded in 1990 at the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday Concert,but the the rest of the five CD difference is accounted for by the fact that the new box is an "original jacket" collection with shorter playing times per CD.The cardboard jackets reproduce the artwork (and timings) of the original LPs.One thing they do not reproduce is program notes: the back of each jacket is devoted to track listings.-- The 1956 recording of Saint-Saens Cello Concerto with Malcolm Sargent is released in stereo for the first time.-- Contrary to Warner's advertising, the Rostropovich interview was in the old EMI box. The new box adds a 13 minute poem (in French!)--  You get one additional DVD not in the original EMI box (Dvorak & Saint-Saens Concerti) but it's available separately.REMASTERED SOUNDThe early reports were mixed.Warner's press release made extravagant claims for the analog recordings (1956-1979):"Wherever possible, the engineers of Art et Son studios have refined the sound, always with scrupulous respect to the original sources. The analogue recordings originating from EMI and Erato (CD1-15) have been remastered in 24 BIT – 96 kHz from the original tapes. These are, therefore, the first recordings where the presence and definition of sound are heard in such detail."The digital recordings (1983-1999) were only described as "remastered" in the press release.No details.Warner no longer identifies the remastering engineers(Warner has also dropped the ADD and DDD codes).ANALOG OR DIGITAL?CDs 1-15 are analog originals - according to Warner.The label side reproduces a black vinyl record (groovy).The cardboard jacket reads "Remastered from original tapes - Published 2017".ButI'm almost certain that CDs 14 (recorded 1982-83) and 15 (1985) are digital originals.The major record companies had already switched to digital recording in 1980.It's possible that CD 14 (Landowski), a co-production with Radio France, was recorded by radio engineers still using analog tape in 1982.but when CD 15 (the Dvorak Concerto with Ozawa and the Boston Symphony) was released in 1985, Erato proudly advertised it as DDD.CDs 16-27 are definitely digital originals, recorded 1985-1999.The label side is shiny silver with a small painted area in the center.The cardboard jacket reads "Remastered - Published 2017" (no longer "remastered from original tapes".)The undisputed analog originals on CDs 1-13 (and part of CD 26) were recorded between 1956 (Myaskovsky & Saint-Saens) and 1979 (Brahms Double Concerto with Perlman).Warner seems to have done a conscientious job.The new analog remasterings are an improvement over those in the old EMI box,with a deeper bass (mixed blessing - you can hear some groans that were masked in the old box).But the new digital remasterings sound a lot like the "old" digital remasterings.POSITIVE: If you missed out on the old EMI box, the new "Cellist of the Century" box will save you a lot of money.Expensive as it is, it still costs less than used copies of the old EMI box.That box was issued in 2008, but withdrawn soon after (apparently there was a dispute over ownership of the Soviet recordings), and it became incredibly expensive.Now it seems the problem has been overcome - the Soviet recordings are included in the new box.POSITIVE: You get a 200 page book of (mostly) photos.NEGATIVE: I had hoped that the missing program notes would be reprinted in the book, but they are not.NEGATIVE: The oversized box offers clumsy CD storage, and won't fit on most shelves.POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE? One-third of the contents is contemporary music commissioned by Rostropovich (sixteen composers).Up to you whether this is a positive or negative.This is in contrast to the competing box from DG, where less than ten percent is contemporary music (Bernstein, Britten, Shostakovich and Messiaen)The composers in the Warner box are a lot more avante-garde (program notes would have helped).ROSTROPOVICH: THE RUSSIAN YEARSI have not included the thirteen CDs of Soviet recordings in this EMI/Warner discography.These recordings are not EMI/Warner originals, but were licensed from a Russian source.A lot of nice stuff, in particular premiere or near-premiere recordings of music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich (1950s mono).The thirteen CD "Russian Years" box was originally released in 1997 (see the end of this review for a link + the contents list).PART ONE: BASIC REPERTOIRE (stereo unless otherwise indicated)C.P.E. BACH- Concerto for Cello Wq.171: Hugh Wolff, Saint Paul Chamber Orch. 1992J.S. BACH- Suites (6) for Cello Solo 1991 (also on DVD)BEETHOVEN- Concerto for Piano, Violin & Cello with Sviatoslav Richter & David Oistrakh: Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic 1969- Variations on Handel's "See the Conquering Hero Comes" with Vasso Devetsi piano 1974- Variations on Mozart's "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen" with Vasso Devetsi piano 1974BLOCH- Schelomo: Leonard Bernstein, ORTF National Orch. 1976BRAHMS- Concerto for Violin & Cello---- with David Oistrakh: George Szell, Cleveland Orch. 1969---- with Itzhak Perlman: Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Concertgebouw 1979- Sonata for Cello & Piano No.2 with Alexander Dedyukhin 1957 monoDEBUSSY- Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamesque with Alexander Dedyukhin piano 1957 mono- Preludes Book 1, No.2 'Minstrel' with Alexander Dedyukhin piano 1957 monoDVORAK- Concerto for Cello Op.104---- Adrian Boult, Royal Philharmonic 1957---- Carlo Maria Giulini, London Philharmonic 1977 (also on DVD)---- Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony 1985HAYDN- Concerti (2) for Cello: Rostropovich soloist & conductor, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 1975HONEGGER- Concerto for Cello (premiered 1929) Kent Nagano, London Symphony 1989MILHAUD- Concerto for Cello No.1 (premiered 1934) Kent Nagano, London Symphony 1989MYASKOVSKY- Concerto for Cello: Malcolm Sargent, Philharmonia Orch. 1956POPPER- Elfentanz Op.39 with Alexander Dedyukhin, piano 1957 monoPROKOFIEV- Symphony-Concerto for Cello (premiered 1952) *---- Malcolm Sargent, Philharmonia Orch. 1957---- Seiji Ozawa, London Symphony 1987RACHMANINOV- Vocalise Op.34, No.14 with Alexander Dedyukhin piano 1957 monoSAINT-SAENS- Concerto for Cello No.1---- Malcolm Sargent, Philharmonia Orch. 1956---- Carlo Maria Giulini, London Philharmonic 1977 (also on DVD)SCHUMANN- Concerto for Cello: Leonard Bernstein, ORTF National Orchestra 1976SCRIABIN- Etude Op.8, No.11 in B Flat Minor with Alexander Dedyukhin piano 1957 monoSHOSTAKOVICH- Concerto for Cello No.1 (premiered 1959) * Seiji Ozawa, London Symphony 1987- Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok (premiered 1967) * with Galina Vishnevskaya soprano, Vasso Devetzi piano, Ulf Hoelscher violin & Rostropovich cello 1974R. STRAUSS- Don Quixote: Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic 1975- Sonata for Cello & Piano with Vasso Devetsi 1974TARTINI- Concerto for Cello: Hugh Wolff, Saint Paul Chamber Orch. 1992TCHAIKOVSKY- Variations on a Rococo Theme: Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony 1985VIVALDI- Concerto for Cello RV406: Hugh Wolff, Saint Paul Chamber Orch. 1992ANTHOLOGYMusic for cello & organ by J.S.Bach, Caix d'Herelois, Frescobaldi, Handel, Marcello, Rheinberger & Saints-Saens with Herbert Tachezi 1993* Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto (1952) and Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto (1959) + Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok (1967) were commissioned by Rostropovich.Contemporary music that has entered the basic repertoire.Objective standard: Basic repertoire is anything recorded more than ten times.PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY MUSIC COMMISSIONED BY ROSTROPOVICH (stereo)DUTILLEUX- Concerto for Cello 'Tout un monde lointain': Serge Baudo, Orchestre de Paris rec.1974GAGNEUX- Triptyque pour violoncelle et orchestre: Seiji Ozawa, London Symphony rec.1994GUBAIDULINA- Canticle of the Sun: Ryusuke Numajiri, London Voices rec.1999HALFFTER- Concerto for Cello No.2: composer, Orchestre National de France rec.1985HODDINOTT- Noctis Equi, Scena for Cello & Orchestra: Kent Nagano, London Symphony rec.1989JOLIVET- Concerto for Cello No.2: composer, ORTF National Orchestra rec.1969KNAIFEL- Chapter Eight for Cello & Chorus: Norman Scribner conductor rec.1995*LANDOWSKITwo works for Soprano (Galina Vishnevskaya), Cello & Orchestra:- "Un enfant appelle": composer, ORTF National Orchestra rec.1982- "La Prison": composer, Orchestre National de Lille rec.1983LUTOSLAWSKI- Concerto for Cello: composer, Orchestre de Paris rec.1974MATTHEWS- Romanza for Cello & Orchestra: Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra rec.1990MORET- Concerto for Cello: Paul Sacher, Collegium Musicum de Zurich rec.1989PENDERECKI- Concerto for Cello No.2: composer, Philharmonia Orch rec.1986PROKOFIEV- Symphony-Concerto for Cello (premiered 1952) *SHCHEDRIN- Concerto for Cello 'sotto voce': Seiji Ozawa, London Symphony rec.1994SCHNITTKE- Concerto for 3 (Violin, Viola & Cello) with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet: Moscow Soloists rec.1995- Trio for Violin, Viola & Cello with Kremer, Bashmet rec.1995- Menuet for Violin, Viola & Cello with Kremer, Bashmet rec.1995SHOSTAKOVICH- Concerto for Cello No.1 (premiered 1959) *- Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok (premiered 1967) ** Prokofiev and Shostakovich are listed under Part One: Basic Repertoire.PREVIOUSLY RELEASED CDs MENTIONED IN THIS REVIEW:-- "The Russian Years": 
  
Rostropovich - The Russian Years 1950-1974







  
  
    The best analysis of "The Russian Years" was done by "Discophage" - see his review dated November 21, 2012.Review titled "The Russian Years of Rostropovich vs his Brilliant days: Russia wins"(includes detailed contents list)-- DVD of Dvorak/Saint-Saens Concerti:
  
Dvorak/Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos - Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Maria Giulini, London Philharmonic Orchestra







  
  
    ANALYSES OF COMPETING ROSTROPOVICH BOXES ON OTHER LABELSSee Comment One (dated 6 January, 2017). Click on "Sort by oldest".PART ONE: DG, DECCA & PHILIPS RECORDINGSPART TWO: SONY RECORDINGS OF ROSTROPOVICHPhotos: The old EMI and Warner boxes.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Shoot the messenger than the message
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2017*

What I say I alway like the sound of cello as it so expressive like human voice expressive as well joyful.Is it worth it as I can Big Mac for 6 weeks  eating and I hope the the sun paper is soft.The sound is not overbearing like Mama Yoyo and it alway hit my head and you run to water LOO.Welll buy it now as the price is Amazon is ...if you buy it you now you can 10 cans of baked bean that will empower you can climb the stair faster.Higly recommended.Read the reviewer on Amazon UK a lot of wind no result and do not pass the sun paper.Highly recommended and you will invest the invest in you lifetime of cello music which take longer to burn than violin or violinist.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    My Mum loves it
  

*by T***A on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2017*

I bought this for my Mum and she loves it.

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