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UNFORGETTABLE PROMS MOMENTS 2 Rostropovich: 'I never played it so fast In my life'
Cold-shouldered: Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the USSR State Symphony Orchestra arrived at the Prorns in 1968 on a very unlucky, day Soviet tanks had just rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring -and the musicians faced shouting protestors outside the the hail and...
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Master of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies on his birthday tribute to the Qeen
'A ceremonial piece of this kind should be an occasion for general musical enjoyment on a very broad scale. One knows that this music is going to be heard by a lot of people who are not, for example, particularly interested in my string quartets. It must be something which I hope the Queen will...
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