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Children’s Cello

Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano) & Simon Callow (narrator)

Children’s Cello
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...

Children’s Cello

Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano) & Simon Callow (narrator)

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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...

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Contents and tracklist

No. 1, Legend
Track length2:24
No. 6, Wanderer's Song
Track length2:44
No. 5, A Sunday Evening in Autumn
Track length1:42
No. 2, A Little Cradle Song
Track length1:17
III. Minuetto (Arr. G. Goltermann)
Track length3:52
12 Easy Pieces: Gavotte
Track length1:56
Lulu Waltz
Track length0:53
4 Short Pieces: No. 2: Spring Song (Version for cello and piano)
Track length2:31
Berceuse (Version for cello and piano)
Track length3:15
No. 8, Serenade (Arr. M. Gendron)
Track length2:02
Song without Words, Op. 109
Track length4:45

Awards and reviews

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.
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