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Cello Concerto In B Minor Op.104
Gregor Piatigorsky, Cello
Charles Munch, conductor
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Gregor Piatigorsky(1903–1976)
Gregor Piatigorsky was born on April 17, 1903 in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine. He began the cello at the age of 7, and shortly thereafter supported his entire family by playing in cafés and silent movie houses. Two years later, Piatigorsky left home and made his way to the Moscow Conservatory of Music. By the age of fifteen he was both principal cellist of the Bolshoi Opera Orchestra and a member of the famed ¡°Beethoven String Quartet¡±, later renamed the ¡°Lenin String Quartet.¡±
while describing his concerts, Piatigorsky said that the ¡°bread and butter¡± of his career was the ¡°Tuesday Morning Music Club¡±. By this, he meant that the many of his concerts were local community events. Of course, he performed with all of the worlds¡¯ greatest orchestras and in all of the finest concert halls. In the first half of the twentieth century musicians did not fly from one major city to another. It was common to travel by train. Artists played in every town along the route of the train. Great live classical music was truly a part of the landscape. Today, quite frequently a Piatigorsky Foundation artist performing in a library, town hall or high school auditorium in rural America is told by someone from the audience, ¡°I heard Gregor Piatigorsky perform on this very stage 50 years ago!¡±
