It featured Todd Phillips on violin, Catherine Cho on viola, and Mihae Lee on piano, and Matthew Christakos, now Associate ...

In 1978, Mstislav Rostropovich, one of the greatest cellists in history, was stripped of his Soviet citizenship for engaging in 'unpatriotic activity'. Rostropovich’s fallout with the Soviet ...

The story goes that Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich liked English composer Benjamin Britten’s music, but he thought the composer was long dead. Learning he was very much alive, Rostropovich ...

Julian Lloyd Webber celebrates the artistry of a legendary fellow cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, a Russian musician who was an outspoken advocate of human rights and an inspiration for many composers ...

On March 27th 2007, Vladimir Putin held a party at the Kremlin for the 80th birthday of the world famous cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. It was to be the cellist’s last public appearance, and his ...

Irish import Rostropovich is no stranger to travelling, having first arrived on Australian shores more than three years ago from the United Kingdom, but after several years calling Melbourne home, the ...

Netflix’s much-talked-about musical has hit the screens, and a scene of Bach’s Prelude in C is raising more than a few eyebrows. Much ink has already been spilled documenting the dubious delights of ...

Sometimes in sport a fifth placing is a big win. Comeback galloper Rostropovich fitted into that category with his first-up fifth at Caulfield Saturday. Sometimes in sport a fifth placing is a big win ...

Embedded deep into the Australian psyche, any storyline out of the Melbourne Cup is far reaching. After Rostropovich finished a distant last in the 2019 edition, onlookers feared the worst for the son ...

The phrase one book opens and one book closes sums up the differing fortunes of Melbourne Cup stayer Rostropovich and the recent Australian Cup winner Fifty Stars, reveals trainer David Hayes. Trainer ...

Melbourne Cup runner Rostropovich is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a fractured pelvis in the race and he could yet return to the track. The Irish import is believed to have a ...