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Mstislav Rostropovich's Modern Torchbearer: Cellist Johannes Moser

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Susan Lewis
Published March 24, 2014 at 2:10 PM EDT
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German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser
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Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007)

This week marks the birth of the celebrated 20th-century Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, one of his recordings with Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra motivated one of today’s leading concert soloists, Johannes Moser, to pursue his career. 

http://youtu.be/kq1erEVES1M

http://youtu.be/dvRCw3OPWiM

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Listen to cellist Johannes Moser speak with WRTI's Susan Lewis about the power of Shostakovich's music, and how he discovered it on Rostropovich's recording with The Philadelphia Orchestra.

http://youtu.be/WyF_pWzegXA
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Susan Lewis
Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She’s host and producer of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She’s also been a regular host of WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
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