Kolejny porywający album Stevena Isserlisa, specjalisty od wiolonczelowej muzyki rosyjskich kompozytorów, na którym wykonuje jedne z najpiękniejszych i najtrudniejszych dzieł jakie powstały na ten instrument. Prawdziwą ozdobą albumu jest koncert Szostakowicza, który napisał partię solową specjalnie dla Mstisława Rostropowicza, jedynego na świecie muzyka, który był w stanie ją wykonać. Isserlis wykonując te dzieła z wielką swobodą i niesamowitą ekspresją potwierdza swój status jednego z najwybitniejszych wiolonczelistów naszych czasów i nie tylko. Jego wspaniałej grze towarzyszą Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra i debiutujący w Hyperionie Paavo Järvi. Gorąco polecamy!

• Wykonawca Isserlis Steven
• Data premiery 2015-02-01
• Nośnik CD

Steven Isserlis has earned a reputation as one of the foremost cellists of our day. At the same time he has become known for his ingenuity and innovation in programming, something which this disc is the perfect example of. It combines four works for cello and orchestra that wouldn’t even exist without Isserlis – all arrangements made at his personal request, and each of them by the arranger of his personal choice. The most radical reworking is the opening piece, an arrangement based on the fact that Debussy at the age of 19 composed a Suite for cello and orchestra. All that is known for certain about this suite is that its fourth movement was called Intermezzo, and that this piece has survived in a version for cello and piano. In her imaginative reconstruction of – or rather replacement for – Debussy’s original composition, Sally Beamish has used this piece as the opening movement, going on to construct orchestral arrangements of four other Debussy works from the same period, including the piano pieces Rêverie and Danse bohémienne. The two Ravel songs which follow were arranged by Isserlis’ friend, the violinist Richard Tognetti in order to supplement the concert programme for a tour that the two were to make with Tognetti’s own Australian Chamber Orchestra. Vladimir Blok’s orchestration of Prokofiev’s Concertino, which had been left incomplete at the death of the composer, was made as Isserlis was unhappy with the existing arrangement of the work, made by Kabalevsky. The disc closes with the earliest of these four re-visions, film composer Christopher Palmer’s orchestration of Ernest Bloch’s From Jewish Life, allowing the disc to end with the movement entitled Prayer – ‘one of the most fervently beautiful pieces ever written for the cello’, according to Steven Isserlis himself. Throughout the programme Isserlis receives the expert support of Tapiola Sinfonietta conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy. Tracklist:1. Suite Pour Violoncelle et Orchestre: Prelude (Intermezzo)2. Suite Pour Violoncelle et Orchestre: Reverie3. Suite Pour Violoncelle et Orchestre: Scherzo4. Suite Pour Violoncelle et Orchestre: Nocturne5. Suite Pour Violoncelle et Orchestre: Danse Bohemienne6. Deux Melodies Hebraiques: Kaddisch7. Deux Melodies Hebraiques: L'enigme Eternelle8. Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, op. 132: Andante Mosso (Cadenza: Olli Mustonen)9. Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, op. 132: Andante10. Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, op. 132: Allegretto11. From Jewish Life: Jewish Song12. From Jewish Life: Supplication13. From Jewish Life: Prayer

• Wykonawca Isserlis Steven , Tapiola Sinfonietta
• Data premiery 2010-07-01
• Nośnik SACD

Tracklista: Frederic Chopin: 1. Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op. 3 2. Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 3. Nie ma czego trzeba, Op. 74/13 (arr. Steven Isserlis) Auguste Franchomme: 4. Nocturne in C minor, Op. 15/1 Franz Schubert: 5. Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821 6. Nacht und Träume, D 827 (arr. Steven Isserlis)

• Wykonawca Isserlis Steven , Varjon Denes
• Data premiery 2018-10-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: 1. Cello Concerto in C major 2. Arranged by Steven Isserlis - 4 Geme la tortorella from La finta giardiniera, K196 3. Cello Concerto in A major 4. Cello Concerto in D major 5. Adagio from Cello Concerto in G major, G480

• Wykonawca Isserlis Steven
• Data premiery 2017-07-01
• Nośnik CD

A cello recital with a difference from two maverick geniuses, displaying the fecundity of their collaboration. The worldfamous cellist Steven Isserlis, one of the best-loved instrumentalists of today, joins forces with composer and pianist Thomas Adès, described by the New York Times as one of the most imposing figures in contemporary music. This recording opens with three of Liszt’s arrangements for cello and piano—the dark plangency of Isserlis’s tone emphasizing their elegiac power. Janácek’s Pohádka (‘A Tale’) is based on a story with many magical elements, and it is this particular quality which Isserlis and Adès bring out in their aerial performance. The passionate ecstasy of Fauré’s Cello Sonata No 2 is deeply felt, and the elemental mysterious sadness of Kurtág’s miniatures leads the listener into the 21st century and to the ‘title track’ of this disc which Adès wrote for Isserlis himself. Lieux retrouvés is a characteristically thrilling tour de force, displaying influences from all the composers previously featured and many more. The writing for the cello reaches uncharted levels of difficulty. Isserlis in his thoughtful booklet notes describes it in pictorial terms of rivers and mountains—here’s Anthony Tommasini, again in the New York Times: ‘The rippling figures for piano and cello spin out in crazed, cyclic riffs; the crystalline piano harmonies sound as if the wind were rustling the chimes in the pagoda; the feisty, industrialized propulsive bursts in the finale.

• Wykonawca Isserlis Steven , Ades Thomas
• Data premiery 2012-09-01
• Nośnik CD

W bogatej twórczości kameralnej Bohuslava Martinu wiolonczela zajmuje specjalne miejsce. Wydaje się, że właśnie ten instrument czeski mistrz rozumiał i pokochał najbardziej. Jego sonaty, zestawione z wiolonczelowymi sonatami Sibeliusa i współczesnego kompozytora fińskiego Oli Mustonena w niepowtarzalny sposób interpretuje Sreven Isserlis. I - jak to w przypadku praktycznie każdej płyty Isserlisa - są to interpretacje najwyższej próby. Brytyjskiemu wiolonczeliście towarzyszy autor jednej z sonat umieszczonej na płycie, pianista i kompozytor Oli Mustonen.

• Wykonawca Isserlis Steven , Mustonen Olli
• Data premiery 2014-03-01
• Nośnik SACD

For the Love Of Brahms to kolejny album gwiazdy światowej wiolinistyki Joshua Bell, nagrany wspólnie z londyńską Academy of St Martin in the Fields. To już trzeci album artysty, od kiedy w 2011 roku przejął tytuł „Pierwszego Dyrygenta” po legendarnym twórcy zespołu Nevillu Marinerze. Tym razem uwaga wykonawców skierowana została w stronę twórczości Johannesa Brahmsa. Skrzypkowi towarzyszą: wiolonczelista Steven Isserlis, pianista Jeremy Denk. Prawdziwy rarytas dla melomanów... Joshua Bell – Violin (+)Jeremy Denk – Piano (*)Steven Isserlis – Cello (×)Academy Of St Martin In The Fields

• Wykonawca Bell Joshua
• Data premiery 2016-09-30
• Nośnik CD

Recognized as one of the great communicators on the concert stage today, Steven Isserlis has written the liner notes to this disc, his third release on BIS, noting that the bond between the works he has chosen to record is their tragic inspiration – ‘the most terrible, senseless conflict the world has ever known.’ The conflict in question is the First World War, and Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo and Frank Bridge’s Oration, subtitled ‘Concerto Elegiaco’, spring directly from their creators’ reactions to its ‘grey hopelessness and the mindless, irreplaceable waste’. Schelomo was composed during the war itself, inspired by the boundless despair expressed in the text of Ecclesiastes: ‘Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities…’ Bloch, who had originally intended to use the text itself in the work changed his mind after an encounter with the Russian cellist Alexander Barjansky. Naming it after King Salomo, traditionally regarded as the author of Ecclesiastes, Bloch created what has become one of the most frequently performed works for cello and orchestra from the 20th century. Less well-known, but no less deeply felt, is Oration, composed in 1930 by Frank Bridge, whose early works had been in a traditional vein with influences from Fauré and Brahms. A convinced pacifist, Bridge had been horrified by the war, and this greatly contributed to the radical changes in his musical language. One of the finest examples of this is the present ‘Concerto Elegiaco’, which Steven Isserlis describes as ‘taking us, almost cinematically, into the mud and slaughter of the battlefields, its cries of brutal suffering forming a musical protest.’ Closing the programme is The Loneliest Wilderness, a work which takes its title from a poem by Herbert Read published in 1919. More than eighty years later Stephen Hough, who as a pianist has collaborated extensively with Isserlis, composed his elegy, but it still resonates with the anguish of the Great War.

• Wykonawca Isserlis Steven , Tapiola Sinfonietta
• Data premiery 2013-02-01
• Nośnik SACD