Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday. He was 80 ...

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 ...

Mstislav Rostropovich's influence and importance as a cellist was almost beyond description. He changed the canon of standard cello literature; the ovations he elicited around the world often ...

MOSCOW — Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died. He ...

“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 ...

This is kind of an experimental show. Bach wrote six beautiful suites for solo cello, and I want to showcase two of them through interpretations by eight different cellists. The cello is probably the ...

from Bach and Vivaldi to Shostakovich, Britten, Bernstein, Messiaen and Dutilleux. He has recorded virtually every major cello concerto, joined in chamber recordings from Rameau to Schubert to ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died.

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died.

MOSCOW — Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, ...

2007-04-27 08:56:05 PDT -- Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist, conductor and champion of human rights who stood at the center of musical and international life for more than half a century, died ...