Lieux retrouvés: Music for cello & piano

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Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 2012
Catalogue No: CDA67948
Label: Hyperion
Length: 76 minutes

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Liszt: Romance oubliée, for viola / cello / violin & piano, S. 132

Work length3:42

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Steven Isserlis (cello), Thomas Adès (piano)

Liszt: Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S382

Work length5:35

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Steven Isserlis (cello), Thomas Adès (piano)

Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola for cello & piano, S134

Work length8:09

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Steven Isserlis (cello), Thomas Adès (piano)

Janáček: Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for Cello and Piano

Work length11:54

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Steven Isserlis (cello), Thomas Adès (piano)

I. Con moto

Track length4:55

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II. Con moto

Track length4:03

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III. Allegro

Track length2:56

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Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117

Work length18:52

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Steven Isserlis (cello), Thomas Adès (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length6:25

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II. Andante

Track length7:28

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III. Allegro vivo

Track length4:59

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Kurtág: For Steven - Im Memoriam Pauline Mara

Work length3:15

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Steven Isserlis (cello)

Kurtág: Pilinszky János: Gérard de Nerval

Work length1:35

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Steven Isserlis (cello)

Kurtág: Schatten

Work length0:59

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Steven Isserlis (cello)

Kurtág: György Kroó in memoriam

Work length5:14

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Steven Isserlis (cello)

Adès: Lieux retrouvés

Work length17:19

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Steven Isserlis (cello), Thomas Adès (piano)

I. Les eaux

Track length4:34

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II. La montagne

Track length4:28

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III. Les champs

Track length4:18

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IV. La ville: Cancan macabre

Track length3:59

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A cello recital with a difference from two maverick geniuses, displaying the fecundity of their collaboration. The world-famous 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.’

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December 2012

Match [Ades's playing] with the mellow sound and manner of Steven Isserlis's cello, and you have something very special. Their choice of repertory here - devised as an extended upbeat to Ades's Lieux retrouves at the end of the programme - is unusual, memorable, and wonderfully performed from start to finish.

3rd November 2012

Isserlis plays with almost tangible intensity and soul, while Adès finds charm and natural expression at every turn – a true musical dialogue.

Awards Issue 2012

This blissfully unhackneyed and brilliantly executed recital takes memory in all its facets as its theme...the recording throughout gives the players all the space and atmosphere they need to characterise the varied moods and textures of an unusually rewarding programme.

30th September 2012

Isserlis is furiously lyrical and concentrated [in the Adès], but no less so in the other works, which offer aptly Romantic-modern context for Adès’s inspiration.

New York Times 25th December 2013

an inspired grouping of diverse composers that highlights surprising musical connections between their styles

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