Brasswork Agency | Shostakovich Remixes
cat no: axp008
release date: february 2007
http://www.auxprocess.com/axp008.html

Track List
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   1. Allegretto Remix
   2. Cadenza 
   3. Moderato Remix
   3. Allegro Con Moto Remix
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In loving memory of Mstislav Rostropovich, who passed away at age 80 in April 2007.  
Rostropovich played over 240 world premieres during his life.  He was a huge Human 
Rights advocate, earning himself exile in France from the Soviet Union for his activist 
work, only to return home to Russia months before his death.

Small samples are taken from a very special recording of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto 
No. 1.  This recording is of the very first U.S. performance of Mstislav Rostropovich, one 
of the best Cellists of our time, and whom the piece was originally written for.  The 
samples are effected and expounded upon, creating these new original pieces that 
carefully blend electronic music with classical music. 

Originally this new work was created for an orchestra based in Chicago, whose intention 
was to remove all sampled parts, and actually perform them.  This was attempted only 
once in October 2005 with New Millennium Orchestra, who contracted Brasswork Agency 
to do the rework.  Unimpressed by the efforts of the orchestra, Brasswork Agency has 
moved past these pieces and given them to Auxprocess in their full digital form for online publication. 

Original pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich.  Cello performance samples performed by Mstislav 
Rostropovich.  All tracks produced by Brasswork Agency. Published 2007 by auxprocess.com. 
This release is licensed under the agreements of Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5.

Cover design by Karin ter Laak
http://wdka.hro.nl/~0754283/

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From Wikipedia.org:
 
The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Opus 107, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1959. 
He wrote it for Mstislav Rostropovich, who memorized the work in four days and gave the 
premiere in Leningrad under Yevgeny Mravinsky, on October 9, 1959 in the Large Hall of the
Leningrad Conservatory. The first recording was made for the CBS label by Rostropovich 
accompanied by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy in November of the 
same year.

The concerto lasts around 25 minutes and has four movements including the cadenza:

   1. Allegretto
   2. Moderato
   3. Cadenza Ñ Attacca
   4. Allegro con moto
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