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Morning Performance

on BBC Radio 3

Artist in Focus: Mstislav Rostropovich Humphrey Burton talks to the Russian cellist about his life and plays recordings from the BBC archive. Today Rostropovich talks about the three great 20th-century composers with whom he was most closely associated.
Britten Cello Suite No 1
Prokofiev Five Ahkmatova Poems
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1
With the Leningrad PO, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Contributors

Unknown:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Talks:
Humphrey Burton
Soprano:
Galina Vishnevskaya
Piano:
Mstislav Rostropovich

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About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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