Word: pezzo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Symphony was one of America's cold war trophies, but his baton work has only rarely matched his peerless way with the cello. Consider a new Italian-issued CD (Intaglio) with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the London ! Symphony, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1967. Rostropovich sails through Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso and digs into Prokofiev's Concertino, written for the cellist and completed by him after Prokofiev's death in 1953. But the glory of the recording is a magisterial reading of Elgar's Cello Concerto; Rostropovich's probing musical mind goes to the heart of this sorrowful masterpiece...
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