More By Artist: Little Steven
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Player Hauser (cello), Czech National Symphony Orchestra , Steven Mercurio (conductor) [ Masterworks / CD - released 16/Sep/2022 ] Following an incredible 10-year run as half of 2CELLOS, HAUSER is ushering a new era as a solo artist and visual concept creator with The Player, using his innovative musical stylings and irresistible charisma to bring a new wave of cello music to... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Oct/2005 ] "In 1984 Steven Isserlis made excellent recordings for Hyperion of the Brahms sonatas with Peter Evans; this time he's added some substantial extra items - the two Suk pieces, wonderfully played, are particularly welcome. The new recording is fuller... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
For the Love of Brahms Joshua Bell (violin) & Steven Isserlis (cello) Jeremy Denk (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields [ Sony Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] "[Bell and Isserlis] are distinct musical personalities yet they work together extremely well in Brahms's interpretatively perilous Double Concerto - Bell's sweet-toned ardour is at once anchored and buoyed by Isserlis's gruffer, more ruminative styl |
MORTON FELDMAN / JOHN CAGE / ERIK SATIE
Rothko Chapel Kim Kashkashian (viola) / Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson, with Sarah Rothenberg (piano) & Steven Schick (percussion) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] "The Houston choir's singing is warm and percussionist Steven Schick creates a great sense of space and ritual." The Guardian |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: An American in Paris / Piano Concerto in F Lincoln Mayorga (piano) / Harmonie Ensemble / New York, Steven Richman [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] "No Gershwin fan should miss this disc." (Gramophone) |
Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul
Soulfire Live! [ Blu-ray - released 17/May/2019 ] The SOULFIRE LIVE! Blu-ray video edition will include Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul's complete Cavern Club concert alongside video performances of each song on the 3CD set, exclusive interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. In addition,... |
Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul
Summer Of Sorcery [ Universal / CD - released 10/May/2019 ] "My first five albums in the '80s were both very personal, and very political," explains Little Steven aka Steven Van Zandt. "I wanted the new material to be more fictionalized. The way records were when I grew up. Before it was an artform. The... |
LOWELL LIEBERMANN
Liebermann: Frankenstein (complete ballet recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Royal Ballet, Covent Garden / Federico Bonelli, Laura Morera, Steven McRae / Koen Kessels (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Royal Ballet Principals Federico Bonelli, Laura Morera and Steven McRae dance the lead roles in Liam Scarlett's new ballet, based on the world's most famous work of horror fiction, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This ambitious theatrical collaboration... |
RACHMANINOV / MESSAGER
Ashton: Rhapsody & The Two Pigeons (Ballet recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY The Royal Ballet / Natalia Osipova & Steven Mcrae, Lauren Cuthbertson, Vadim Muntagirov / Barry Wordsworth (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 16/Nov/2016 ] Two Frederick Ashton ballets in one exquisite evening performance. Principals Natalia Osipova and Steven McRae dance Ashton's Rhapsody, created for the Royal Ballet in 1980 by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lesley Collier, with spectacular choreography to... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (recorded at Bregenz Festival, 2009) BLU-RAY Royal Ballet / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Peter Wright (choreographer) / Miyako Yoshida / Ricardo Cervera / Steven McRae [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 19/Nov/2010 ] 'One of the very best seasonal treats for children and adults alike, the Royal Ballet's Nutcracker is a handsome, magical, thoroughly traditional rendering of ETA Hoffmann's immortal if deeply strange story.' Sunday Express |
JULIUS ISSERLIS
Isserlis: Piano Music Sam Haywood (piano) with Steven Isserlis (cello) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] "Haywood, fortunately, isn't tempted to make more of these pieces than is wise. He plays them with consummate sensitivity, and has been well recorded. Isserlis seems to have been a charmer and, musically-speaking, a miniaturist and his works reflect |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Études-tableaux Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Jul/2018 ] "It instils the works with a certain mystery, captured imaginatively and authoritatively by Steven Osborne. As Rachmaninov said, "a small piece can become as lasting a masterpiece as a large work". Osborne proves his point." Sunday Times |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
British solo cello music Steven Isserlis [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] If Britten's Cello Suite No 3 is the undisputed masterpiece here, the other works are no less deserving of attention, Frank Merrick's 'Suite in the eighteenth-century style' being a particular delight. As ever, Steven Isserlis's booklet notes offer... |
JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello Steven Isserlis (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, Omer Meir Wellber [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] BBC Music Award WINNER - Premier Award 2021 Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2020 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Cello Symphony (with Frank Bridge - Oration) Steven Isserlis (cello) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ EMI British Composers / CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] "Two masterly British cello scores, well recorded and in fine performances." (MusicWeb Dec 2007) |
SCHUMANN
Music for cello & piano Steven Isserlis (cello) Danes Varjon (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "The really exciting performance here is Steven Isserlis's transcription of Schumann's valedictory Third Sonata: it's as if he's been preparing all his life to launch into its dark storm." (BBC Music) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Teodor Currentzis conducts The Mahler Chamber Orchestra BLU-RAY Steven Isserlis (cello) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis [ Euroarts Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 15/Oct/2018 ] The Mahler Chamber Orchestra was Orchestra in Residence at the KlaraFestival 2013 which is known as a modern and international classical music festival far beyond Belgium's borders. The concerts of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra formed one of the... |
MENDELSSOHN / GRIEG / HOUGH
Mendelssohn / Grieg / Hough: Cello Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello) & Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] Grieg's sole Cello Sonata has long been a favourite of performers and audiences, if not of musical theorists, and here receives an impassioned vote of confidence from Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough at the head of a programme which takes the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas (with works by Suk and Dvorak) Steven Isserlis (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "His current recording of Brahms's Sonatas with Stephen Hough displaces all others" (BBC Music Recording of the Month Dec 2005) |
MENDELSSOHN / POPPER / FAURE / POULENC / SIBELIUS / BRYARS / BEACH / etc
Children's Cello Steven Isserlis (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] "With a household that pulsates to the glorious tones of the cello there's clearly much material for this volume…highlights here include a sumptuous rendition of Faure's Berceuse, and a deliciously piquant pereformance of Poulenc's Serenade" 5 Stars |
