Leonard Elschenbroich, who begins 10-stop solo cello tour for Music Network on November 19th, is fascinated by the effects of oppression and censorship on composers. He sees Prokofiev as fleeing to "a ...

As with Bach’s St Matthew Passion, this disc presents an unfamiliar early version of a known masterpiece. Prokofiev wrote his Cello Concerto in the 1930s, but it failed to win favour (“grunting and ...

Cellist Lynn Harrell and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy play the middle movement from Prokofiev's Cello Concerto, Op. 119. (London 421 774-2) 5:00 ...

Sonata for Piano No. 9 Peter Donohoe, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 10 Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Peter Donohoe, Piano (2) Sonatinas Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Peter Donohoe, ...

Program notes ([3] p. : ill.) inserted in container. Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Shostakovich, piano accompaniment; Sviatoslav Richter, piano accompaniment. 101 ...

(30) Children's Pieces, Movements: Novelette Leonard Elschenbroich, Cello Petr Limonov, Piano Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer (The) Tale of the Stone Flower, Movements: Waltz Leonard ...

Moscow Radio Orchestra; Nikolai Golovanov, conductor; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Leningrad Philharmonic; Kurt Sanderling, conductor (Multisonic). The Borodin is the main attraction on this ...

One of the musicians I miss most in this current deep freeze is the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos. He always loved eluding the press – when I was commissioned to interview him in Madrid, he almost ...

Prokofiev and Shostakovich, like Mozart and Haydn, can be seen as opposite sides of a single coin. Prokofiev is the cool, hard-edged, objective composer; Shostakovich, the anguished personal ...

Matching menace with intense lyricism, these performances of two closely related works are compelling. Alban Gerhardt has a malleable tone and an adaptable personality that can convey the lyrical ...