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Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough open with a beginners' open-string solo (Ludwig Lebell's Berceuse orientale) and continue with increasingly challenging material that culminates in Gaspar Cassadó's... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2006
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Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Show 19 remaining works on this recording Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Stephen Hough (piano), Steven Isserlis (cello), Simon Callow (narrator) Recorded: August 2005 Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Hide 19 works on this recording
The disc is packaged in a slipcase designed by Sara Fanelli, graphic artist and illustrator of children’s books. Steven Isserlis’s own book for children, Why Handel Waggled his Wig, is published by Faber in conjunction with the release of the present disc
July 2006
Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough open with a beginners' open-string solo (Ludwig Lebell's Berceuse orientale) and continue with increasingly challenging material that culminates in Gaspar Cassadó's bravura Requiebros. The contemporary selections are especially satisfying. Gavin Bryars's With Miriam by the River pays homage to the composer's cello-playing mother in music of quiet, lyrical intensity. Howard Blake's Archangel's Lullaby, written to celebrate the birth of Isserlis's son Gabriel, has a Fauré-like sensibility... Hough's Angelic Song (yet another gift to Gabriel Isserlis) is a ravishingly simple meditation. Isserlis père's own The Haunted House may not merit repeated hearings but its silliness is sure to provide a chuckle or two, aided by Simon Callow's sly narration, and the cello's role a sound-effects machine could motivate many youngsters to pick up instrument. Delightful.
