Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
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Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
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Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126, in 1966 in the Crimea. Like the first concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under Yevgeny Svetlanov on 25 September 1966 at the composer's 60th birthday concert. The concerto is sometimes listed as in the key of G, but the score gives no such indication. Along with the Eleventh String Quartet, the Preface to the Complete Works, and the Seven Romances on Texts by Alexander Blok, the Second C
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1966 concerto for cello and orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich
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2004-04-26T11:41:47Z
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2024-09-09T02:58:51Z
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