Three cellos once owned by the great cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich were auctioned at Sotheby's in New York this week – and two of them broke records On 28 November, Sotheby’s London ...

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 Friday of cancer at a Moscow ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor considered by many to be one of the finest virtuosos of his instrument in the last half of the 20th century, has died. He was 80. Rostropovich, who ...

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 ...

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, died Friday.

Mstislav Rostropovich, cello, percussion and conductor; Emmanuel Pahud, flute; London Voices and London Symphony Orchestra; Ryusuke Numajiri, conductor (EMI Classics) Sofia Gubaidulina’s St. John ...

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 ...

To anyone who loves the cello, Rostropovich: The Genius of the Cello (BBC4) was required viewing. Is required viewing, because if you missed it, it will be on iPlayer now. I'm not sure I would have ...

Three cellos once owned by the great cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich were auctioned at Sotheby's in New York this week – and two of them broke records On 28 November, Sotheby’s London ...

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.