Filmed during Sotheby’s recent sale of items belonging to Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, this video captures the moment that the cellist’s1783 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini reaches a hammer price of £1.6 million. It was sold for a final total of £1,930,000 (including the buyer’s premium).
Read: Two cello records set at Sotheby’s sale of Rostropovich collection
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Today we’re shining a light on the titan of cello playing, who was born on 27 March 1927
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The first prize of €20,000 was awarded to South Korean violinist Soyoung Yoon
The 1736 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin was sold on Friday 3 June by Aguttes auction house in France
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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