9th Philharmonic Concert / Finally

Alban Gerhardt, one of today's leading cellists, accepted the Rostock invitation and, with his technical perfection and profound musicality, promises an extraordinary concert event. The versatile artist will perform Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 2, which, between the lines, was intended as an ironic response to the double standards of the Soviet officials who denounced him during Stalin's lifetime and later courted him. Written for Mst...