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VideoSong of the Birds, featuring Mischa Maisky, Han Bin Yoon, Jan Vogler and Jens Peter Maintz
In this closing concert from the 2020 Brussels Cello Festival, Mischa Maisky, Han Bin Yoon, Jan Vogler and Jens Peter Maintz perform the Song of the Birds, made popular by Pau Casals, in an arrangement for cello quartet by Sungmin Ahn. Read: Adagietto from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5: 2020 BCF ...
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ArticleMy Heroes: Mischa Maisky on Mstislav Rostropovich and Gregor Piatigorsky
The Latvian-born cellist looks back on two influential teachers: Mstislav Rostropovich and Gregor Piatigorsky
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ReviewMischa Maisky, Lily Maisky: 20th-Century Classics
A father–daughter combination achieves some almost miraculous musical moments
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FocusMischa Maisky on working with Leonard Bernstein
The cellist, who celebrated his 70th birthday this year, reminisces about performing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Leonard Bernstein. Interview by Peter Quantrill
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NewsThe Strad December 2018 issue is out now
Vilde Frang on her unusual path to international acclaim, and the unlikely pairing of works on her new album
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VideoTeaser for Mischa Maisky documentary
A teaser for a documentary about cellist Mischa Maisky, the great ’performing animal’, to be released in 2020. Featuring contributions from Maxim Vengerov, Evgeny Kissin, Valery Gergiev and others.
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FocusPostcard from Verbier Festival
Peter Quantrill reports from the 25th anniversary of the Verbier Festival, where a wealth of A-list musicians rubbed shoulders with enthusiastic younger players from the Festival Academy and Orchestra
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FocusPostcard from Dresden Music Festival
Jan Vogler’s Dresden Music Festival this year included Cellomania, a celebration of the cello, in which great artists of all generations shared the stage. Tim Homfray reports on a wealth of outstanding performances
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FocusCello journey: the best recordings of Ernest Bloch's Schelomo
Intended to be played as a seamless integrated whole, with an equality between the cellist and the orchestra, rather than as a concertante piece, Bloch’s Hebraic rhapsody Schelomo has been recorded by many cellists in numerous ways – and it seems that there is something special about almost all ...
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VideoMischa, Sascha and Lily Maisky - Beethoven Clarinet Trio (Adagio)
The Maisky Trio, formed by veteran Israeli cellist Mischa Maisky, 70 today, and his children Sacha (violin) and Lily (piano), perform the slow movement from Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio, op.11
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ArticleCellist Mischa Maisky performs Bach in the mountains
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs the Prelude from Bach's First Cello Suite as an encore at Rifugio Rosetta - 2.581 meters above sea level on the western edge of the Plateau Pale above the village of San Martinu di Castrozza, Italy. The performance took place as part ...
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ArticleMischa Maisky performs Saint-Saëns's The Swan
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs 'The Swan' from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.The performance was recorded at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland on 27 July 2015. The entire concert, including Maisky's performance of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto can be viewed ...
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ArticleQuintet dream team: Joshua Bell, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Henning Kraggerud, Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello), Joshua Bell (violin), Henning Kraggerud (violin) and Yuri Bashmet (viola) come together in a dream lineup to perform Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, op.57 at the 2008 Verbier Festival. Read: ‘I often have to battle negative thoughts on stage,’ says violinist Joshua Bell ...
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ArticleMischa Maisky plays Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G
Mischa Maisky performs the Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G.Watch: Cellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninov’s VocaliseWatch: Mischa Maisky performs Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.1Read: Cellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
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ArticleItzhak Perlman, Mischa Maisky and Evgeny Kissin perform Tchaikovsky
Violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Evgeny Kissin perform an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A Minor, op. 50 on 3 December 2015 at Carnegie Hall, New York. Read: Never practise for more than five hours per day, says violinist Itzhak Perlman Watch: 2Cellos, ...
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FocusCellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
Both great musicians taught Maisky that the cello is merely a means to an end
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ArticleCellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninov's Vocalise
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninov's Vocalise with his daughter Lily Maisky at the Moscow Conservatory in 2008.Read: Cellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
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ArticleVadim Repin, Mischa Maisky and Lang Lang perform Rachmaninov
Violinist Vadim Repin, cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Lang Lang perform Rachmaninov's Trio élégiaque No. 1 at the Verbier Festival in 2009.Read 6 pieces of advice for performers by violinist Vadim Repin.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To ...