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Tribute to Gregor Piatigorsky: Brahms, Saint-Saens, Bloch | Praga Digitals PRD250368

Tribute to Gregor Piatigorsky: Brahms, Saint-Saens, Bloch

Label: Praga Digitals

Cat No: PRD250368

Barcode: 3149028107920

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th April 2017

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Contents

Artists

Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
Nathan Milstein (violin)
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Fritz Reiner
Charles Munch

Works

Bloch, Ernest

Schelomo (Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra)

Brahms, Johannes

Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, op.102

Saint-Saens, Camille

Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.33

Artists

Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
Nathan Milstein (violin)
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Fritz Reiner
Charles Munch

About

Gregor Piatigorsky, only 18 years old, traveled from USSR to Germany, studied with Becker and Klengel and found employment playing in a trio in a Russian cafe in Berlin, frequented by Feuermann and Furtw舅gler, who hired him as principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic. He kept that post until 1929 (now 26 years old), when he decided to pursue a career as a traveling concert artist. When Richard Strauss heard him, he said, "I have finally heard my Don Quixote as I thought him to be." That same year he made his debuts with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stowkowski, and the New York Philharmonic, with Mengelberg. He loved the United States, and became a citizen in 1942 . The first Russian cellist of the last century to be world-acclaimed before Rostropovich.

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