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KOSTAS KATSIYIANNIS
Casals, Fournier, Navarra & Rostropovich on Bach's
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So, here, on my CD player, together with the Rostropovich were the performances of three eminent cellists that I had already chosen: Pablo Casals, Pierre Fournier and Andre Navarra. Listening to them has been a memorable experience to me. It has never happened to me before to listen in succession to a series of interpreters offering me such a summation of musical wealth on one work, and a difficult and overplayed work at that...
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... I must admit, I felt rather awkward when it came to my
turn to comment on Rostropovich's performance; that recording had become
legendary even before it was made, so -using Rostropovich's words- "I
had to pluck up my courage" to collect the recordings I needed and to
start listening to them. 
