Deutsche Grammopohn celebrates the life, career and spirit of Mstislav Rostropovich --? Eight full discs all in one package at a budget price. Includes all the great cello concertos plus a wide selection of Rostropovich as conductor and chamber musician. 　　REVIEWS: 　　"...the Rostropovich/Karajan partnership is an inspired one and these are great performances. Rostropovich's sense of nostalgia in the secondary material of the finale of the Dvorak Concerto is quite memorable (especially towards the close) and he brings a comparable feeling of Russian melancholy to the lyrical pages of Tchaikovsky's splendid variations. Musically this is in a class of its own." -- Ivan March, Gramophone review of original release DG 413819, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky。 　　"In the Brahms both [Serkin] and Rostropovich forget their customary energy and offer a performance of a profoundly elegiac beauty. Listen to their hushed magic at 9'59" in the first movement, to their gently propelled Minuet and to a dignity and restraint that never exclude vitality in the finale, and you are made aware of a consummate quality unattainable to lesser mortals." -- Bryce Morrison, Gramophone review of DG 474328, Brahms Cello Sonata no 1。 　　"the Meditations for cello and orchestra...beautifully reflect the individual poetry of the two artists who here perform them and for whom they were written. I had forgotten how well the fragments from Mass work as a separate piece, when delivered with the magnetism of Rostropovich." -- Edward Greenfield, Gramophone review of DG 415966, Bernstein Medtations from Mass。