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For Remembrance Sunday. Mstislav Rostropovich conducts the "Requiem aeternam" from Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, in a performance recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 1993. The Britten-Pears Foundation website describes the genesis of the work: On the night of 14 November 1940 the burnt offering was Coventry Cathedral, victim of the Luftwaffe bombs. The circumstances of its destruction dictated that...
MOSCOW, October 27 (RIA Novosti) - A monument to the famous late cellist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, was unveiled on Monday at Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery. The monument is in the form of a...
(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin viewing the art collection of late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his widow Galina Vishnevskaya, displayed in Konstantinovsky Palace...
Mstislav Rostropovich died last April -- this week sees the first concert of the Moscow International Cello Festival, a new event organized by the Moscow Philharmonia and dedicated to the memory of the musician. The festival has as its artistic...
A significant era is winding down in Washington, where Leonard Slatkin's dozen-year tenure as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra will end in June. He has fortified the ensemble, made it more versatile and flexible than it was when his predecessor, Mstislav Rostropovich, had the reins. He has enlivened the music scene with unexpected repertoire and festivals.
His name is Alisher Usmanov. Today, you can hardly find anyone in Russia, UK and Uzbekistan, who would not know about this person. For the first, Alisher Usmanov is known as a billionaire businessman, who is never greedy, when it comes to save (Russian) national treasures (like Mstislav Rostropovich’s collection and intellectual right [...]
Anna Netrebko has been named Musical America 's Musician of the Year for 2008. The soprano, whom the publication called "a genuine superstar for the 21st century," joins a roster of past nominees that includes Martha Argerich, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky and Mstislav Rostropovich.
The art collection of celebrated cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, bought by Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov, is to find its permanent home in a palace in St. Petersburg.
The late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich’s art collection, acquired by a Kremlin-friendly billionaire, will be placed in a palace near St. Petersburg, the owner said Monday. Alisher Usmanov earlier said he had paid $72 million for the collection of Russian art, built up by Rostropovich and his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, to stop its sale at a [...]
Scores of Russian art dealers who travelled to London last month to bid at a Sotheby's auction of art works belonging to the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich...
The auction of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya's collection of Russian art, scheduled to take place at Sotheby's in London last week was cancelled. The entire collection, (Vendors :Galina Vishnevskaya and her daughter) consisting of 450 lots and estimated to be worth $26-40 million, were purchased entire by the owner of Kommersant Publishing House Alisher Usmanov, who intends to
MOSCOW – A Russian billionaire says he bought the art collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich for the state by offering the upper limit of the value established by the auction house...
