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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) |
BLOCH / BRIDGE / HOUGH
In The Shadow of War Steven Isserlis (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hugh Wolff / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Gábor Takács-Nagy [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression." (5 Stars BBC Music) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Chopin: Cello Sonata, etc / Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata, etc Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (Érard piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] "Even among Isserlis's many fine discs, this one stands out. And if you still need convincing that the Chopin Cello Sonata is a total masterpiece, this is the recording to do it." Gramophone Recording Of The Month November 2018 |
REBECCA DALE
Dale: Night Seasons Steven Isserlis (cello) Guy Johnston (cello) / Tenebrae, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nigel Short [ Signum / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] 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. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Teodor Currentzis conducts The Mahler Chamber Orchestra Steven Isserlis (cello) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - 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... |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Cello Sonatas Vol 1 Steven Isserlis (cello) Oli Mustonen (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2014 ] "These are performances to treasure and comprise the finest renditions of the Martinu Sonatas I have come across...There is a profound understanding and sympathy for Martinu's melodic and rhythmic idiom." (BBC Music Magazine) |
BACH / HANDEL / SCARLATTI
Gamba Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello), Richard Egarr (harpsichord) with Robin Michael (cello) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "Isserlis judges the scale of his performances to a nicety." Financial Times, 11th September 2015 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas / Variations Steven Isserlis (cello) Robert Levin (fortepiano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 15/Dec/2013 ] Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month February 2014 |
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) |
BLOCH / DEBUSSY / PROKOFIEV / RAVEL
reVisions Steven Isserlis (cello) / Tapiola Sinfonietta / Gábor Takács-Nagy [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Expect nothing po-faced from Steven Isserlis, a cellist never afraid of taking risks and revealing his heart...Refined playing by the Tapiola Sinfonietta add to the pleasure." (The Times) |
BRUCH / DVORAK / R. STRAUSS / BEAU / E.D. WAGNER / NATHAN
Steven Isserlis - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888 Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano), Olivia Jageurs (harp) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] "No cellist alive can match the eloquent intent of Steven Isserlis's line. Every phrase he threads through the warm embrace of Connie Shih's pianism is articulated and 'breathed' with the ardour of a great vocalist" BBC Music |
ART TATUM
Tatum: Improvisations Steven Mayer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] This collection presents improvised and embellished (jazz-style) versions of classic tunes in the style that Art Tatum made famous. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music Volume 33 - Wagner and Weber Transcriptions Steven Mayer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] |
CHARLES IVES
Piano Sonata No.2 'Concord' / The Celestial Railroad Steven Mayer (Piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "The Mayer recording is also musically excellent and prefaces each of the four movements, which are named for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and others, with readings that give a context for Ives' understanding of these historic figures and... |
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Steven Novacek
Sor:guitar Music [ Naxos / CD ] |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Early and late piano pieces Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] A programme which bridges Debussy's first work for piano (the 'Danse bohémienne', from 1880) and his last ('Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon', from 1917). Steven Osborne is equally responsive to the very different musical moods of both. |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano sonatas: Op 9-. Op 101, Op 106 'Hammerklavier' Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] Steven Osborne has repeatedly proved himself a Beethovenian of profound insight. In these three late sonatas-including the monumental 'Hammerklavier'-he gives performances of stunning impact and lasting fulfilment. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: The Complete Preludes Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] "Deeply satisfyng, glowing Préludes from this fine British pianist..A good recording of the Debussy Préludes should feel like an occasion, and Steven Osborne delivers. His playing seeps with atmosphere and he delves deep into the composer's sound... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Piano Music Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] Some of the disc's finest moments, though, occur in the spare perfectionism of Children's Corner: here Osborne's phrasing is pure and poetic, as well as raptly atmospheric in 'The snow is dancing'. And it finishes with a deliciously louche cake-walk. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Four Impromptus D935 / Three piano pieces D946 / etc Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "Osborne takes a wonderfully clear-sighted, analytical approach which gives the seven late works, as well as the early, often playful variations, great radiance and lyricism." (The Guardian) |
