Best recording / performance Dvorak Cello conc.

I like the YoYo Ma one with the NY Phil under Mehta (I think it's Mehta), but I know for a fact that there are other great ones out there. Personally, I wouldn't mind owning three or four different interpretations of that one. I think Casals, Rostropovich and DuPre all have recordings of that. Forget sonics, they will all be very different and very interesting.

The Rostopovich is my opionion the best or at lesst the most warm and romantic version done to date. I believe it is paired with Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations. An outstanding performance.

Agree about the Rostropovich--I believe it's on the Erato label. Starker on Mercury is also pretty good, and would be available now on SACD hybrid (not sure about the Erato's availability).

For sonics, I'd go with the Starker/Dorati/Mercury SACD. Damned fine performance, too, although I prefer the Casals and Rostropovich performances by a bit.

Kal

Thanks all. I checked at arkivmusic.com and found that Rostropovich has had several recordings.

The Giulini with the LPO (number 1) comes recommended.

I don't own, nor do I intend to buy an SACD player, but thanks for mentioning it.

1. Dvorák, Saint-saëns: Cello Concertos / Rostropovich, Giulini
Release Date: 09/11/2001 Label: Emi Great Recordings Of The Century Catalog: 67594
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns, Antonín Dvorák
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

2. Dvorak: Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto / Rostropovich
Release Date: 09/22/1994 Label: Supraphon Catalog: 111901
Composer: Antonín Dvorák
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich, Frantisek Maxian
Conductor: Vaclav Talich
Orchestra/Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

3. Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Tchaikowsky / Rostropovich, Karajan
Release Date: 01/23/1996 Label: Dg The Originals Catalog: 447413
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvorák
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

4. Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Strauss: Don Quixote / Rostropovich
Release Date: 06/14/2004 Label: Yedang Entertainment Catalog: 10015
Composer: Antonín Dvorák, Richard Strauss
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich, Dimitri Shebalin
Conductor: Boris Khaikin, Kiril Kondrashin
Orchestra/Ensemble: USSR State Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
CD $8.99

5. Dvorak: Symphony No 9, Etc / Talich, Rostropovich, Czech Po
Release Date: 02/25/2003 Label: Archipel Catalog: 99
Composer: Antonín Dvorák
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductor: Vaclav Talich
Orchestra/Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
CD $11.99

6. Mstislav Rostropovich - Dvorák, Saint-saëns: Cello Concertos
Release Date: 04/10/1997 Label: Testament Catalog: 1101
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin, Claude Debussy, David Popper, Camille Saint-Saëns,
Antonín Dvorák
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexander Dedyukhin
Conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Adrian Boult
Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra