Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 2 With score

Composer: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 -- 9 August 1975) Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Seiji Ozawa Cello: Mstislav Rostropovich [Also the dedicatee] Cello Concerto No. 2, op. 126, written in 1966 00:00 - I. Largo 13:59 - II. Allegretto 18:19 - III. Allegretto Shostakovich’s last major work before his first heart-attack -- his first intimation of his own mortality -- was the Second Cello Concerto. Composed in the early months of 1966, the Cello Concerto seems to have started life as what Shostakovich called his Fourteenth Symphony. In the event, however, the work evolved into the concerto, although the work’s symphonic character was so pronounced that Shostakovich wrote to his friend Isaak Glikman “...that the Second Concerto could have been called the Fourteenth Symphony with a solo cello part“ (Shostakovich, A Life, Laurel Fay, p. 247). Although the work was conceived and composed prior to the deterioration of his health, the Second Cello Concerto is, for the most