Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, etc.

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Cellists are apt to 'come of age' in recordings of the Elgar. Isserlis was no exception. This is a wonderful account of the Concerto – brave, imaginative, individual – indeed, quite the most... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 5614902
Label: Erato
Series: de Virgin
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Work length29:00

Album only

Steven Isserlis (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 1988-07-26
Recording Venue: 25 & 26 July 1988, Watford Town Hall

I. Adagio - Moderato

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II. Lento - Allegro molto

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III. Adagio

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IV. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro, ma non troppo

Track length11:30

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Bloch, E: Schelomo

Work length21:50

Album only

Steven Isserlis (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox
Recorded: 1988-07-26
Recording Venue: 25-26 July 1988 / Watford Town Hall

Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 77

Work length26:51

Album only

Steven Isserlis (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1988-12-04
Recording Venue: 2-4 December 1988 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

I. Molto sostenuto - Allegro molto e energico

Track length11:22

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II. Presto marcato

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III. Andante con moto - Allegro

Track length7:27

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Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Work length18:48

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Steven Isserlis (cello)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-10-31
Recording Venue: October 1989 / Teatro Comunale di Ferrare

Introduction

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Theme (moderato semplice)

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Variation I

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Variation II

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Variation III - Andante

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Variation IV - Allegro vivo

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Variation V - Andante grazioso

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Variation VI - Allegro moderato

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Variation VII - Andante sostenuto

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Variation VIII e coda - Allegro moderato e con anima

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Tchaikovsky: Nocturne, Op. 19 No. 4

Work length4:18

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Steven Isserlis (cello)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-10-01
Recording Venue: October 1989/Teatro Comunale di Ferrare - Italy

Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale / Andante cantabile / Pezzo capriccioso Op. 62

Work length6:02

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Steven Isserlis (cello)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-10-01
Recording Venue: October 1989/Teatro Comunale di Ferrare - Italy

Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile (from String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11)

Work length6:37

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Steven Isserlis (cello)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-10-01
Recording Venue: October 1989/Teatro Comunale di Ferrare - Italy

Strauss, R: Don Quixote, Op. 35

Work length42:07

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Cynthia Phelps (viola), Steven Isserlis (cello)
Minnesota Orchestra
Edo de Waart
Recorded: 1991-05-14
Recording Venue: 13-14 May 1991 / Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis

Introduktion : Mäßiges Zeitmaß

Track length6:19

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Thema: Mäßig - The Knight of the Mournful Countenance

Track length2:18

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Variation I: Gemächlich - The adventure of the windmills

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Variation II: Kriegerisch - The battle with the sheep

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Variation III: Mäßiges Zeitmaß - Dialogue of Knight and Squire

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Variation IV: Etwas breiter - The adventure with the procession of penitents

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Variation V: Sehr langsam - Don Quixote's vigil

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Variation VI: Schnell - Dulcinea's enchantment

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Variation VII: Ein wenig ruhiger als vorher - The ride through the air

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Variation VIII: Gamächlich - The adventure of the enchanted boat

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Variation IX: Schnell und stürmisch - The battle with the enchanters

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Variation X: Viel breiter - Don Quixote's defeat and journey home

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Finale: Sehr ruhig - The death of Don Quixote

Track length5:17

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2010

Cellists are apt to 'come of age' in recordings of the Elgar. Isserlis was no exception. This is a wonderful account of the Concerto – brave, imaginative, individual – indeed, quite the most personal in its perception of the piece since the treasurable du Pré on EMI. And that, you'll appreciate, is saying something though not, we hasten to add, that the two readings are in any outward sense similar. Far from it. With Isserlis, the emotional tug is considerably less overt, the emphasis more on shadow and subtext than open heartache. Yet the inner light is no less intense, the phrasing no less rhapsodic in manner than du Pré. On the contrary. This is freerange Elgar all right, and like du Pré it comes totally without affectation. Both Isserlis and du Pré take an appropriately generous line on the first movement's sorrowful song, with Isserlis the more reposeful, the more inclined to open out and savour key cadences. The Scherzo itself is quite simply better played than on any previous recording; the articulation and definition of the semiquaver 'fours' would, we're sure, have astonished even the composer himself. From a technical point of view Isserlis is easily the equal, and more, of any player currently before us. And if you still feel that du Pré really did have the last word where the epilogue is concerned, then listen to Isserlis sinking with heavy heart into those pages preceding the return of the opening declamation.
He achieves a mesmerising fragility in the bars marked lento – one last backward glance, as it were – and the inwardness of the final diminuendo is something to be heard and remembered. Hickox and the LSO prove model collaborators. Don't on any account miss these performances.

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, etc.

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