Following Rostropovich: Early Recordings, this is a companion Original Masters specially priced 2-CD set featuring the great Russian cellist. With Leonid Kogan and Emil Gilels, his regular partners (and great artists in their own right) in the 1950s, Mstislav Rostropovich emerges here as an exceptional team-player, in polished performances of five piano trios and Fauré's First Piano Quartet, where the young Rudolf Barshai (viola) joins the ensemble.