Mischa Maisky all-time favorites

Mischa Maisky all-time favorites

Verbier Festival

Hear the beloved tracks of Mischa Maisky. Born in 1948 in Riga, Latvia, Mischa Maisky was a prizewinner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and began his studies with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory while pursuing a concert career throughout the former Soviet Union. After being imprisoned in a labour camp near Gorky for 18 months in 1970, he emigrated from the USSR.

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas brasileiras No. 1, A 246, W 246
II. Preludio (Modinha)
Orchestre National de France, Heitor Villa-Lobos
Manuel de Falla
Canciones populares españolas, G. 40 · “Popular Spanish Songs”
Nana
Nina Musinyan, Daniil Shafran
Alexander Scriabin
Romance for horn and piano in A Minor
Romance
Thomas Adès, Steven Isserlis
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia No. 1 in C Major, BWV 787 · “3-Part Inventions”
Arioso (Adagio in G) from Cantata BWV 156 - Arranged for 4 Cellos by Jian Wang (Bonus Track)
Jian Wang
Sergei Rachmaninoff
14 Romances, Op. 34 · “14 Songs”
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Lorin Maazel, Berlin Philharmonic
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Six morceaux in A-Flat Major, Op. 51, TH 143
No. 6, Valse sentimentale. Tempo di Valse
Daniel Lozakovich, Stanislav Soloviev
Franz Schubert
Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D 821
1. Allegro Moderato
Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich
Gabriel Fauré
Elégie, Op. 24
Elégie in C Minor, Op. 24
Gerald Moore, Jacqueline du Pré
Jules Massenet
Thaïs
Méditation
Giancarlo Guerrero, Bomsori Kim, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic
Kol Nidrei
Kol Nidrei
Eternal Echoes Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman, Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, The Klezmer Conservatory Band
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30 · “Orpheus and Eurydice”
Overtura
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Act II)
Berlin Philharmonic, Karlheinz Zoeller, Herbert von Karajan
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 · “Memory of a Dear Place”
1. Meditation (Arr. for Strings)
Daniel Harding, Janine Jansen, Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012
II. Allemande
Yo-Yo Ma
Sir Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
I. Adagio - Moderato
Jacqueline du Pré, London Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb/1
I. Moderato (Cadenza by Britten)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Mstislav Rostropovich
Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
III. Sehr lebhaft
Orchestre National de France, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Bernstein
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme in A Major, Op. 33, Op. 33b, TH 57, TH 57b
Variazione III. Andante sostenuto
Mstislav Rostropovich, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan
Franz Schubert
Du bist die Ruh, der Friede mild in E-Flat Major, D 776, Op. 59/3 · “You are rest and Peace”
Du bist die Ruh', D. 776 (Transc. for Cello & Piano)
Kian Soltani, Aaron Pilsan
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, TH 5
Lenski's Aria Paraphrase from Eugen Onegin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Pahud
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Six morceaux, Op. 19, TH 133
Nocturne in D Minor, Op. 19, No. 4
Mischa Maisky, Pavel Gililov
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, B 166, Op. 90 · “Dumky”
I. Lento maestoso - Allegro vivace - Lento maestoso - Allegro molto
Trio Wanderer
Mauricio Kagel
Trio I in three movements for violin, cello and piano: No. 1
I. Largo - Andantino - Andantino - Adagio
Trio Imàge
Benjamin Britten
Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65
I. Dialogo
Mstislav Rostropovich, Benjamin Britten
Jean Sibelius
Valse triste, Op. 44
Valse Triste, Op. 44
Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan
Johannes Brahms
4 Songs, Op. 70
II. Lerchengesang
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Daniel Barenboim
Richard Strauss
4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170
No. 4, Morgen
Jeffrey Tate, English Chamber Orchestra, Renée Fleming
Fritz Kreisler
3 Old Viennese Dances, “Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen”
Liebesleid
Itzhak Perlman, Samuel Sanders
Massenet: Les Erinnyes
Invocation
Douglas Cummings, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
Camille Saint-Saëns
Le carnaval des animaux, R. 125 · “The Carnival of the Animals”
XIII. The Swan (Arr. Cello, Harp & Ensemble)
Katherine Thomas, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, CBSO Cellos
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor
Adagietto (Sehr langsam) from Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor
Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan
Gabriel Fauré
3 Songs, Op. 7 · “Trois mélodies”
No. 1, Après un rêve (Transcr. Büsser)
Douglas Boyd, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Deborah Nemtanu, Gautier Capuçon
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Trio No. 2 in G Major, Op. 9/1
II. Adagio ma non tanto e cantabile
Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Gregor Piatigorsky

33 Tracks, 3 Hours 16 minutes