1948 Born 10 January in Riga, Latvia A cellist, Maisky won the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and began studies with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory while pursuing a concert career throughout the former Soviet Union.
The cellist MischaMaisky is one of the best of his profession.
In 1959, Valery Maisky, a Bach scholar and performer to whose memory this new recording is dedicated, gave a copy of the 1957 Musgyz edition by Alexander Stogorsky to his younger brother Mischa.
The result of Maisky's 1999 recordings in an abbey in the Flemish part of Belgium (called Flanders) is recommended to all lovers of classical music (review based on the booklet text by Tully Potter).
Maisky began studies with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory whilst pursuing a concert career throughout the Soviet Union.
In 1970, he was imprisoned in a labor camp near Gorky for 18 months.
In his performing and recording career, Maisky has worked in long-standing partnerships with artists such as the pianists Martha Argerich and Radu Lupu, the violinist Gidon Kremer, and the conductors Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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