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...first charged that the U.S. was recklessly gambling with the lives of the spacemen on an ill-prepared mission. When it became clear that Gemini would succeed and lead the U.S. far along on its timetable for reaching the moon, the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, tried to deflate the news by proclaiming that nobody knows enough about the terrain of the moon to land there any time in the foreseeable future. Later, noting gravely that Gemini would pass 16 times over North Viet Nam, 40 times over Red China, eleven times over Cuba, the Soviet...
...what came out was a freshet of lush sound that exploited the limits of the instrument's capabilities. At 38, Mstislav Rostropovich is ranked by many critics as the foremost heir to the mantle of Pablo Casals, now 88. More impetuous than the visionary Casals, Rostropovich's attack is charged with a propulsive urgency, his singing tone more darkly burnished...
...Norman churches surrounding this tiny (pop. 3,000) fishing village on the windswept east coast of England. Chief attraction is Townsman Benjamin Britten. Primarily devoted to chamber music, the program will include a cycle of 15th and 20th century English church music, plus a concert by Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, accompanied on the piano by Composer Britten...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: SYMPHONY FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA (London). On the heels of 1963's bestselling War Requiem comes another major new work by Britten, recorded by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra under the composer's baton. A 35-minute symphony of gloomy grandeur, it opens with short, skittering, sometimes angry themes. They are like uneasy questions, finally answered in passages that are broadly melodic but nevertheless tentative and unsettling...
BEETHOVEN: SONATAS FOR PIANO AND CELLO (2 LPs; Philips). Beethoven gave both the pianist and cellist a good deal to say in his sonatas, which makes the pairing of these artists a special delight. Sviatoslav Richter, 50, and Mstislav Rostropovich, 37, have been playing chamber music together for years, and each knows when to follow the other's moods and when to talk back...