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Conductor: Valery Polyansky
Cellist: Alexander Ivashkin
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Date: 1997
Venue: Moscow Conservatory
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Opus 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich wrote the work for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who committed it to memory in four days and gave the premiere on October 4, 1959, with Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory. The first recording was made in two days following the premiere by Rostropovich and the Moscow Philharmonic, under the baton of Aleksandr Gauk.
0:00 Allegretto
6:14 Moderato
17:48 Cadenza – Attacca
23:41 Allegro con moto
Conductor: Valery Polyansky
Cellist: Alexander Ivashkin
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Date: 1997
Venue: Moscow Conservatory
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Opus 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich wrote the work for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who committed it to memory in four days and gave the premiere on October 4, 1959, with Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory. The first recording was made in two days following the premiere by Rostropovich and the Moscow Philharmonic, under the baton of Aleksandr Gauk.
0:00 Allegretto
6:14 Moderato
17:48 Cadenza – Attacca
23:41 Allegro con moto
