Sonderkonzert Mit Mischa Maisky by Beethoven, Brahms, sob. 03 dec. 2022, Od (2022/2022), Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe, Germany

The cellist Mischa Maisky is one of the best-known representatives of his instrument worldwide. He is the only cellist to have studied with the great cello legends Mstislav Rostropovich and Gregor Piatigorski. Rostropovich praised him as "...one of the most extraordinary talents of the younger generation." Born in Latvia and educated in Russia, Maisky was received enthusiastically in the world's great concert halls after his repatriation to Israel. He sees himself as a citizen of the world: "I play an Italian cello, with French and German bows and Austrian and German strings, my six children were born in four different countries [...], I feel at home wherever people play classical music enjoy and appreciate.” As an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, Maisky has made more than 30 recordings over the past 25 years – with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchester de Paris. The exceptional cellist has a very special connection to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Alongside the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Mischa Maisky will perform Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107, which Shostakovich dedicated to his good friend Rostropovich and which is undoubtedly one of Maisky's great showpieces. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks for the generous support of the Theater and Orchestra Association, with which this concert can be realized.