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Steven Isserlis, Guy Johnston, Tenebrae, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nigel Short - Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons (2024)

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Steven Isserlis, Guy Johnston, Tenebrae, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nigel Short - Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons (2024)

Steven Isserlis, Guy Johnston, Tenebrae, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nigel Short - Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 305 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 150 Mb | 01:05:28
Classical, Vocal | Label: Signum Classics

Hailed by Classic FM as “one of today’s most exciting young composers” Rebecca Dale is a London based composer, working most often with large orchestral and choral forces in the worlds of cinema and theatre. Night Seasons is an album about hope, looking for the light in difficult times, written during a time of personal dif- ficulty while her father was terminally ill. With works written for choir and cello it strives to be a hopeful album, reaching for the wonder around us. Rebecca Dale says “It’s been one of the great privileges of my life to be able to write for cellist heroes of mine to whom I grew up listening. I also got to have fun setting some famous poems… I am indebted to everyone who has created this album with me”.

Steven Isserlis, Roger Norrington - Joseph Haydn: Cello Concertos in C & D; Sinfonia Concertante (1998)

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Steven Isserlis,  Roger Norrington - Joseph Haydn: Cello Concertos in C & D; Sinfonia Concertante (1998)

Joseph Haydn - Cello Concertos in C & D; Sinfonia Concertante (1998)
Steven Isserlis, cello; The Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Sir Roger Norrington, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 341 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 09026 68578 2 | Time: 01:15:22

What a versatile artist Steven Isserlis is. Having made his name as a sympathetic interpreter of a wide variety of romantic and modern music, here he shows he can be just as persuasive in eighteenth-century repertoire. His stylistic awareness is evident in beautiful, elegant phrasing, selective use of vibrato and varied articulation, giving an expressive range that never conflicts with the music’s natural language. In the cello concertos he is helped by an extremely sensitive accompaniment, stressing the chamber musical aspects of Haydn’s pre-London orchestral writing. The soft, intimate sonority at 3'06'' in the first movement of the D major is a typical example. The Adagios are taken at a flowing speed, but Isserlis’s relaxed approach means they never sound hurried. The Allegro molto finale of the C major Concerto, on the other hand, sounds poised rather than the helter-skelter we often hear. In his understanding of the music, Isserlis is a long way ahead of Han-na Chang, whose version places the emphasis on fine, traditional-style cello playing. Mork’s vivacious, imaginative performances characterize the music very strongly, but my preference would be for Isserlis’s and Norrington’s lighter touch and greater refinement.

Steven Isserlis, Paavo Jarvi, Philharmonia Orchestra - Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos (2016)

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Steven Isserlis, Paavo Jarvi, Philharmonia Orchestra - Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos (2016)

Steven Isserlis, Paavo Järvi, Philharmonia Orchestra - Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 279 Mb | Total time: 73:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68077 | Recorded: 2014, 2015

For this 2016 Hyperion release, cellist Steven Isserlis and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Paavo Järvi present a moving album of cello concertos by Edward Elgar and William Walton, along with Gustav Holst's Invocation and Imogen Holst's The Fall of the Leaf, a five-movement suite for solo cello. The program creates a profoundly pensive and even autumnal feeling, and Isserlis' tone is by turns reflective, lyrical, and poignantly elegiac, appropriate to the selections. The melancholy nostalgia of Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor colors the album's mood from the outset, and notwithstanding passages of intense virtuosity, the rich but subdued sonorities of his burnished orchestration contribute to its brooding quality.

Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888: Bruch, Strauss, Dvořák, Le Beau, E.D. Wagner, Nathan (2022)

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Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888: Bruch, Strauss, Dvořák, Le Beau, E.D. Wagner, Nathan (2022)

Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888: Bruch, Strauss, Dvořák, Le Beau, E.D. Wagner, Nathan (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 304 Mb | Total time: 76:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68394 | Recorded: 2021

Isserlis's lockdown project is a fascinating collection of interconnected solo cello pieces: Bach, the Russian master-cellist, and Isserlis himself are the links…but the Britten Suite is the meatiest item here: truly a "meditation" on death, as Isserlis calls it, and played with a technical and musical conviction worthy of its creators.

Steven Isserlis, Olli Mustonen - Martinu, Sibelius, Mustonen: Cello Sonatas (2014)

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Steven Isserlis, Olli Mustonen - Martinu, Sibelius, Mustonen: Cello Sonatas (2014)

Steven Isserlis, Olli Mustonen - Martinu, Sibelius, Mustonen: Cello Sonatas (2014)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:18:09 | 348 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-SACD-2042

As Bohuslav Martinu gradually becomes better known in the west, his appealing chamber music is increasingly being performed and recorded, as it should be. This SACD of the three cello sonatas joins a respectable number of recordings that are available, though these exceptional performances by Steven Isserlis and Olli Mustonen are sure to give this album a higher profile in the marketplace.

Steven Isserlis, Peter Evans - Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonatas (1985)

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Steven Isserlis, Peter Evans - Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonatas (1985)

Steven Isserlis, Peter Evans - Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonatas (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 192 Mb | Total time: 50:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66159 | Recorded: 1984

In every way these perceptive and well-detailed readings stand in competition with the finest.

Steven Isserlis - Steven Isserlis plays Kabalevsky, Mendelssohn and Brahms (2011)

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Steven Isserlis - Steven Isserlis plays Kabalevsky, Mendelssohn and Brahms (2011)

Steven Isserlis - Steven Isserlis plays Kabalevsky, Mendelssohn and Brahms (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 76:06 | 306 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BBC | Catalog: BBC MM338

Steven John Isserlis is one of the leading internationally ranked cellists. He plays a wide range of repertory and is noted for using gut strings and a great deal of vibrato. He is the grandson of Russian composer and pianist Julius Isserlis and can trace his family tree back to connections with both Karl Marx and Felix Mendelssohn. He spent most of his teenage years (1969-1976) at the International Cello Centre as a pupil of Jane Cowan,who required her students to read Goethe's Faust in order to understand Beethoven better and memorize Racine to know the sound of the language when playing French music.

Steven Isserlis, Omer Meir Wellber, Philharmonia Orchestra - John Tavener: No longer mourn for me (2020)

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Steven Isserlis, Omer Meir Wellber, Philharmonia Orchestra - John Tavener: No longer mourn for me (2020)

Steven Isserlis, Omer Meir Wellber, Philharmonia Orchestra - John Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 71:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68246 | Recorded: 2017, 2019

An important release which again demonstrates Steven Isserlis’s deep commitment to the music of John Tavener. The realization of the album is movingly detailed in a booklet note which provides an eloquent counterpoint and commentary to the performances.

Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Jeremy Denk, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - For the Love of Johannes Brahms (2016)

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Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Jeremy Denk, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - For the Love of Johannes Brahms (2016)

Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor & Piano Trio in B Major (2016)
Robert Schumann: Violin Concerto in D Minor (coda by Benjamin Britten)
Joshua Bell, violin & music director; Steven Isserlis, cello
Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Jeremy Denk, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 358 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88985321792 | Time: 01:16:35

Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis are joined by two acclaimed musical forces - pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, of which Bell is Music Director – in a landmark joint recording, For the Love of Brahms (Sony Classical). Available September 30, 2016, the new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls “music about love and friendship.” Bell, Isserlis and Denk unite here in Brahms’s first published chamber work, the Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 in its rarely performed original 1854 version. Isserlis also joins Bell – as violin soloist and director – and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Brahms’s last orchestral work, the celebrated Double Concerto (for Violin and Cello) in A Minor, Op. 102. Bell, Isserlis and members of the Academy also offer the first recording of an unusual coupling: the slow movement of Schumann’s rarely heard Violin Concerto, in a version for string orchestra made by Benjamin Britten, who also added a short coda.

Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888 (2022)

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Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888 (2022)

Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 310 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 192 MB
1:16:56 | Classical | Label: Hyperion

Steven Isserlis has curated another typically imaginative recital, in which all the works date—in one guise or another—from an especially fruitful decade in the history of the cello.
"Isserlis's lockdown project is a fascinating collection of interconnected solo cello pieces: Bach, the Russian master-cellist, and Isserlis himself are the links…but the Britten Suite is the meatiest item here: truly a "meditation" on death, as Isserlis calls it, and played with a technical and musical conviction worthy of its creators."

Steven Isserlis ‎- John Tavener: Svyati (1997)

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Steven Isserlis ‎- John Tavener: Svyati (1997)

Steven Isserlis ‎- John Tavener: Svyati (1997)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:10:05 | 270 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Victor | Catalog: 09026 68761 2

Since the composition of The Protecting Veil in 1987, the cello has played an important role in John Tavener's music. Even when he was writing for instruments during the 1989-1995 period when the music on Svyati originated, Tavener's works carried strong overtones of Russian Orthodox church services, and the cello here, as Tavener himself points out, sometimes seems to stand in for the voice of a priest. These pieces have been recorded before, but cellist Steven Isserlis, who premiered The Protecting Veil and some of the works included here, sheds valuable light on this phase of Tavener's career by bringing them together on one disc.

Steven Isserlis, Christoph Eschenbach - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2, La Muse et le Poète, Romance Op. 76, Cello Sonata No

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Steven Isserlis, Christoph Eschenbach - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2, La Muse et le Poète, Romance Op. 76, Cello Sonata No

Steven Isserlis, Christoph Eschenbach - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2, La Muse et le Poète, Romance Op. 76, Cello Sonata No. 2 (2000)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 325 MB | 01:14:39
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

Steven Isserlis is a splendid cellist with a consummate technique and a focused, intense tone capable of infinite variety. He's an enterprising, imaginative musician with a penchant for centering programs on a single composer or national idiom. He has recorded French sonatas for Virgin Classics, and for RCA, the works of Mendelssohn, John Taverner, Haydn, and Czech and Russian composers. On his latest CD, Isserlis performs four relatively unfamiliar compositions of Saint-Saëns. Unfortunately, obscure works by a good composer are usually neglected for a reason.

Steven Isserlis, Lorin Maazel - Strauss: Don Quixote - Complete Works for Violoncello (2001)

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Steven Isserlis, Lorin Maazel - Strauss: Don Quixote - Complete Works for Violoncello (2001)

Steven Isserlis, Lorin Maazel - Strauss: Don Quixote - Complete Works for Violoncello (2001)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 321 MB | 01:14:57
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

This survey of Strauss cello works includes one of the finest Don Quixotes since Pierre Fournier’s matchlessly aristocratic Berlin and Cleveland accounts. Steven Isserlis first met Cervantes’ “Knight of Rueful Countenance” a decade ago when he recorded the work for Virgin with the Minnesota Orchestra under Edo de Waart. You could take absolute technical command for granted, but what was doubly impressive was the way Isserlis brought out the Don’s internalized conflicts (an old man’s obsession with chivalry nullified by failing physical powers) so vividly. His insights emerge even more potently in this remake with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian RSO. It’s impeccably delivered, with outstanding solo playing from Isserlis and his equally fine (but un-credited) Sancho Panza (viola) and also from the orchestra’s concertmaster.

Steven Isserlis - Cello World (1998)

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Steven Isserlis - Cello World (1998)

Steven Isserlis - Cello World (1998)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 342 MB | 01:11:49
Genre: Classical | Label: Steven Isserlis - Cello World (1998)

Cello World is a wonderful collection of original works and arrangements from the repertoire of world-famous cellist Steven Isserlis. The inspired line-up of pieces includes Schumann's moving Intermezzo, Leonard's The Donkey and the Driver and Villa-Lobo's rippling Song of the Black Swan. This is the perfect volume for cellists looking for a variety of challenging repertoire.

Steven Isserlis - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, Sonata No. 1, Romances (1990)

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Steven Isserlis - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, Sonata No. 1, Romances (1990)

Steven Isserlis - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, Sonata No. 1, Romances (1990)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 256 MB | 01:07:15
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

'Concerto!' was a Channel Four TV series that showed participating soloists in rehearsal, in conversation with Dudley Moore and Michael Tilson Thomas and, ultimately, in performance, which resulted in several recordings, of which this is one. This disc is recommendable not so much for Steven Isserlis's Cello Concerto – smooth and intelligent as that is – as for the fillups. The swan has Moore and Tilson Thomas as joint accompanists, elegantly executed, but the items with Pascal Devoyon are especially valuable, the First Cello Sonata full of elegantly tailored drama, the two Romances, Chant saphique and Gavotte palpable charmers, tastefully played; and the headstrong, thematically memorable Allegro appassionato, one of the finest shorter pieces in the cellist's repertory. .