The glory of Rostropovich: 80th birthday tribute

Concerto for violoncello and strings no. 2 in D major / Luigi Boccherini (16:40). Concerto for violoncello and strings in C major, RV 398 / Antonio Vivaldi (8:06). Concerto for violoncello and strings in A major / Giuseppe Tartini (14:41). Concerto for violoncello and strings in G major, RV 413 / Antonio Vivaldi (10:53) (Collegium Musicum Zurich; Paul Sacher, conductor)

Concerto for violoncello and orchestra in A minor, op. 129 / Robert Schumann (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor) (25:36)

Concerto for violoncello and orchestra in B minor, op. 104 / Antonin Dvorak (41:21). Variations on a rococo theme : for violoncello and orchestra, op. 33 / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (18:53) (Berliner Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan, conductor)

Andante cantabile, op. posth, for violoncello and string orchestra : from the String quartet no. 1, op. 11 (orchestral version) / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Berliner Philharmoniker; Rostropovich, conductor) (6:38)

Chant du menestrel : op. 71, for violoncello and orchestra / Alexander Glazunov (4:13). Concerto for violoncello and orchestra no. 2, op. 126 / Dmitri Shostakovich (33:10) (Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor)

Symphony no. 5 in D minor / Dmitri Shostakovich (National Symphony Orchestra; Rostropovich, conductor) (45:34)

Concert a quatre / Olivier Messiaen (Catherine Cantin, flute; Heinz Holliger, oboe; Yvonne Loriod, piano; Orchestre de l'Opera Bastille; Myung-whun Chung, conductor) (26:11)

Three mediations from Mass : for violoncello and [string] orchestra / Leonard Bernstein (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Bernstein, conductor) (16:56)

Sonata for piano and violoncello no. 1 in E minor, op. 38 (27:08) ; Sonata for piano and violoncello no. 2 in F major, op. 99 (30:10) / Johannes Brahms (Rudolf Serkin, piano)

Sonata for piano and violoncello in G minor, op. 65 (29:13) ; Polonaise brillante : for piano and violoncello in C major, op. 3 (8:09) / Frederic Chopin. Adagio and allegro for violoncello and piano in A flat major, op. 70 / Robert Schumann ; arr. Friedrich Grutzmacher (8:07) (Martha Argerich, piano)

String quintet in C major, D. 956 (op. post. 163) / Franz Schubert (Emerson String Quartet) (53:29)

Swan lake. Suite (25:16) ; The sleeping beauty. Suite (20:01) ; The nutcracker. Suite (23:06) ; Capriccio italien : op. 46 (15:33) / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Berliner Philharmoniker; Rostropovich, conductor)

Romeo and Juliet. Suite no. 1 for large orchestra (27:15) ; Suite no. 2 for large orchestra (30:06) / Serge Prokofiev (National Symphony Orchestra; Rostropovich, conductor).