Benjamin Britten conducts Tchaikovsky and Britten
Benjamin Britten conducts Tchaikovsky and Britten:

These recordings represent an overview of some of the headiest years of Mstislav Rostropovich's career, during which he made his name in the West. He was exiled from his homeland for his support of dissident artists, poets and musicians, and, in doing so, established himself as a Major internat...

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Weitere Verfasser: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich 1840-1893, Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976
Format: Elektronisch Video
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Place of publication not identified] BBC, under licence to International Classical Artists Ltd. Licensed courtesy of BBC Worldwide. [2012]
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Cello with orchestra
Operas
Orchestral music
Overtures
Variations (Cello with orchestra)
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Zusammenfassung:These recordings represent an overview of some of the headiest years of Mstislav Rostropovich's career, during which he made his name in the West. He was exiled from his homeland for his support of dissident artists, poets and musicians, and, in doing so, established himself as a Major international force for good, musical and otherwise. By the time he died in 2007 he had become a cultural Olympian, being awarded in that year the Gold UNESCO Mozart Medal. The recordings also offer some unusual glimpses of Britten himself. Rostropovich had emerged as one of the most significant musicians in the Soviet Union when he made his Western debut in Liège in 1963. Through his friend and teacher Dmitri Shostakovich, he was introduced to Benjamin Britten. Britten was inspired by him to compose his Cello Symphony, premiered in Moscow in March 1964, and to follow it with the three Cello Suites --
arguably the most important body of solo cello music since Bach. Much of this is reflected in this programme, in particular Rostropovich's association with Benjamin Britten, and through him, his involvement in the Aldeburgh Festival. From 1948, he resigned his studentship at the Moscow Conservatoire in disgust at the Stalinist regime's treatment of his composition teacher, Shostakovich. Rostropovich continued to make political statements that he felt had to be made. And he did so through his music. Twenty years later, the year of the Aldeburgh performance documented here, he appeared at the Proms in London with a Soviet orchestra, the day after Warsaw Pact forces had invaded Czechoslovakia, playing the Dvorák Concerto. The intensity of the performance, in an atmosphere of political tension, was something those present will never forget. It was not long after meeting Britten that Rostropovich became a regular performer at the Aldeburgh Festival.
He took part in the first televised concert from the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, part of which is included here. This is a particularly poignant film, since it is virtually the only record we have of the Maltings as it was before it was destroyed by fire in 1969 and rebuilt in time for the 1970 Festival. Tchaikovsky wrote the Variations on a Rococo Theme for Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, a fellow professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who gave the premiere in Moscow in November 1877. Tchaikovsky allowed Fitzenhagen to make radical alterations in the piece, and it was only in 1941 that his original intentions were rediscovered. However, Rostroprovich said he did not think he should discard the Fitzenhagen arrangement, since it had Tchaikovsky's approval at the time, otherwise he would not have let it be published. Rostropovich's Aldeburgh performance displays him at the peak of his powers and is a wonderful example of his partnership with Britten, of whom this is rare conducting footage.
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