RIP, Slava
From Fidelio Magazine, Spring 1999
Fidelio: on November 11 [1989] you played a Bach suite at Checkpoint Charlie.
Rostropovich: It was a simple need; I had to do it. And by myself, for sure. Because, this Wall was a symbol of my life, or my “two” lives—the one before 1974, and the one thereafter—which were so completely different, and could not be brought into harmony as long as this Wall existed.
Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011
Prelude : Allemande : Courante : Sarabande : Gavotte I : Gavotte II : Gigue
Fidelio: on November 11 [1989] you played a Bach suite at Checkpoint Charlie.
Rostropovich: It was a simple need; I had to do it. And by myself, for sure. Because, this Wall was a symbol of my life, or my “two” lives—the one before 1974, and the one thereafter—which were so completely different, and could not be brought into harmony as long as this Wall existed.
Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011
Prelude : Allemande : Courante : Sarabande : Gavotte I : Gavotte II : Gigue
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posted by jodru at 09:32
1 Comments:
Enough to make a grown man cry. RIP Slava.
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