ANTON RUBINSTEIN (1829-1894): Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 65, Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 96.

Description: Rubinstein was condemned by the Mighty Five as a Europeanizing composer who ignored Russian folk music and the charge might stick in the first concerto but there are obvious traces of folk music in the slow movment and finale of the second. Werner-Thomas Mifune (cello), Bamberg Symphony; Yuri Ahronovich. Original 1989 Koch Schwann release.