Cello Concerto No. 2

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Released for Record Store Day 2017. Limited to 3000 copies. Recorded 25.XI.1967, Great Hall, Moscow Conservatoire in the presence of the composer. ℗ 1997 Mstislav Rostropovich. © 2017 Parlophone Records Limited. In the 1950s Roentgenizdat – or X-ray publishing – became a trend in Soviet counterculture. ‘Bone music’ and ‘rock on ribs’ are two other terms that describe these bootleg recordings of music from the West, ingeniously cut onto X-ray film discarded by hospitals. This Record Store Day r