complicated musical web in which all roads lead to Dvorak. One of the first cello recordings Eldredge fell in love with was a duet by Rostropovich and fellow cellist Jacqueline du Pre. Rostropovich is ...

Mstislav Rostropovich was many things: a commanding conductor, a political dissident, a public figure in the world of classical music. But before all that, he played the cello. One year after his ...

To witness cellist Mstislav Rostropovich's appearance in Davies Symphony Hall on Monday night was to be in the presence of greatness of the most complex and far-reaching sort. a performer of ...

Cello playing in the 20th century was dominated by two outsize personalities. If the first half belonged to Pablo Casals, the second half was equally emphatically bestridden by Mstislav Rostropovich, ...

“It’s not that he always stood up for freedom,” said my friend Alex, also a musician, of Mstislav Rostropovich. “It was that he was a great cellist who communicated well.” In a sense, with each attack ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor considered by many to be one of the finest virtuosos of his instrument in the last half of the 20th century, has died. He was 80. Rostropovich, who ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist and conductor who died Friday at 80, was one of the great titans among instrumentalists of the 20th Century. Fortunately he left behind a huge discography ...