Shostakovich: Cello Concertos
Alban Gerhardt (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
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Alban Gerhardt writes admiringly of Rostropovich and the legacy of marvellous works he inspired, but on the evidence of these extraordinary accounts of two of them, he need fear no comparisons with his great Russian forebear.