Cello Concertos

MAISKY NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEITNER

This new release is a new volume in the fortunate NHK Orchestra series of never before released live-recordings with great soloists and conductors. The young Misha Maisky here plays Haydn's First Cello Concerto and Dvorak Cello Concerto. As an encore: Bach's famous Sarabande. Born in 1948 in Riga, Latvia, Mischa Maisky received his first music lessons there at the Children’s Music School and Conservatory. In 1962 he entered the Leningrad Conservatory. In 1965 his debut with the Leningrad Philharmonic earned him the nickname “Rostropovich of the Future”. One year later he was a prizewinner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and began his studies with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory while pursuing a concert career throughout the former Soviet Union. After being imprisoned in a labor camp near Gorky for 18 months in 1970, he emigrated from the USSR and pursued a career in Israel and throughout Europe.

Price: $35.98