Profil, Edition Günter Hänssler, Kronberg Academy | 2008 | |

CELEBRATING SLAVA!

4 CDs with 27 works which are dedicated to Rostropovich or which he composed, initiated or premiered. Recording during the Cello Festival 2007 and played by his friends and companions Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Natalia Gutman, Lynn Harrell, Miklós Perényi and many others.

Works by Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, Henri Dutilleux, Hans-Werner Henze, Romualds Kalsons, Witold Lutoslawski, Nikolai Miaskovsky, Astor Piazzolla, Sergei Prokofiev, Yuri Schaporin, Alfred Schnittke and Sir William Walton and two world premieres of works by Rodion Shchedrin and Giya Kancheli.