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Mischa Maisky, Yuri Temirkanov - Respighi: Adagio con variazioni
Misch Maisky performs this piece from a 2003 gala performance in St Petersburg, on the eve of the city's 300th anniversary.
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The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by its then-music director Yuri Temirkanov.
Respighi's Adagio con variazioni was composed in 1921 and is closely connected to an earlier, unpublished Cello Concerto in E minor from 1902. This Adagio in fact began life as that