Prokofiev & Shostakovich: Cello Concertos

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Here at last is a recording to persuade sceptics that Prokofiev's Cello Concerto is not just an interesting but rather drab failure...both Isserlis and Jarvi leave their competition standing... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2015
Catalogue No: CDA68037
Label: Hyperion
Length: 65 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

2nd March 2015
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2016

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Prokofiev: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 58

Work length36:21

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Steven Isserlis (cello)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi

I. Andante

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II. Allegro giusto

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IIIa. Tema: Allegro – Interludio: L'istesso tempo

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IIIb. Variation 1: L'istesso tempo

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IIIc. Variation 2: Vivace

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IIId. Variation 3: Andantino tranquillo – Interludio II: Tempo I –

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IIIe. Variation 4: L'istesso tempo –

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IIIf. Reminiscenza: Meno mosso

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IIIg. Coda: Poco più sostenuto

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Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107

Work length27:15

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Steven Isserlis (cello)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi

I. Allegretto

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II. Moderato

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III. Cadenza –

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IV. Allegro con moto

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Prokofiev: Music for Children, Op. 65

Work length1:34

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Steven Isserlis (cello)

X. March

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Recording of the Week, Russian Cello and Piano Concertos from Steven Isserlis and Kirill Gerstein

2nd March 2015

David listens to a pair of new releases that throw light on early versions of concertos by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.

A thrilling album from Steven Isserlis couples the ground-breaking Prokofiev Cello Concerto from the 1930s with Shostakovich’s eruptive response to it written for Rostropovich in 1959. These seminal works mark the cello’s coming of age, enveloping its trademark rhapsodic lyricism in a newly visceral passion.

Paavo Järvi makes his Hyperion debut, conducting an ebullient Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and providing the ideal foil to Isserlis’s impassioned virtuosity.

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Awards Issue 2015

Here at last is a recording to persuade sceptics that Prokofiev's Cello Concerto is not just an interesting but rather drab failure...both Isserlis and Jarvi leave their competition standing when it comes to expressive eloquence.

April 2015

In the first movement Isserlis conjures some surprising, visceral sounds from his instrument, ratcheting up the tension with a febrile, nervy vibrato up high...The soloist contributes his own lively and individualistic booklet-notes, enhancing the value of a fascinating, I'd say unmissable project.

2nd March 2015

Isserlis wrestles like a cellistic Jacob with a fiendishly difficult and un-rewarding solo part; his victory in the closing bars over his sparring partners, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and their conductor Paavo Järvi, is the culmination of a struggle both heroic and hard-fought!

29th March 2015

In his fascinating booklet note, Isserlis makes a persuasive case for preferring Prokofiev’s 1938 Concerto in E minor to its radical revision...If the earlier version is no masterpiece...this performance vindicates that preference.

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Recording of the Week, Russian Cello and Piano Concertos from Steven Isserlis and Kirill Gerstein

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