Variations on a Rococo Theme

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This extract from the Variations on a Rococo Theme shows two giants of 20th-century music, Benjamin Britten and Mstislav Rostropovich, meeting in Aldeburgh in June 1968. This recording offers an overview of the most exciting years in the career of Mstislav Rostropovich, during which he made his name in the West, was banished from his country for supporting various dissident artists and asserted himself as an ambassador of good, not just in the musical world. Having just been awarded UNESCO's Mozart Gold Medal in 2007, he disappeared and became a cultural legend...