In The Shadow of War

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this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression...What... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Feb 2013
Catalogue No: BIS1992
Label: BIS
Length: 67 minutes

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May 2013

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Bloch, E: Schelomo

Work length21:34

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Steven Isserlis
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Hugh Wolff
Recorded: January 2012
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

Bridge: Oration - Concerto elegiaco for cello and orchestra

Work length16:37

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Steven Isserlis
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Hugh Wolff
Recorded: November 2009
Recording Venue: Tapiola Concert Hall, Finland

Hough: The Loneliest Wilderness

Work length29:28

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Steven Isserlis
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Gábor Takács-Nagy
Recorded: January 2012
Recording Venue: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

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This programme is well conceived and draws some truly moving playing. The coda to Bridge’s Oration makes a serious challenge for the title of ‘most beautiful ending to a cello concerto’ Isserlis.

Schelomo is an extraordinary work where Bloch seems to have created a new musical language inspired by Jewish music dating back thousands of years. Often mistaken for film music, Schelomo’s immediacy and descriptiveness has influenced many film composers.

Isserlis plays the ‘Marquis de Corberon’ Stradivarius of 1726, formerly owned by Zara Nelsova who was the first to record Bloch’s Schelomo with the composer conducting.

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June 2013

this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression...What he has achieved in this beautifully balanced recording with Hugh Wolff is a breathtaking new fluency and freedom.

May 2013

Isserlis's spellbinding advocacy of Bridge's raptly compassionate masterpiece in particular has acquired an extra richness of experience and plangent intensity...both performances [the Hough and the Bloch] really are tremendously compelling in their articulate composure, nourishing intelligence and clear-sighted purpose.

31st July 2013

Bloch’s famous Schelomo is given a superb performance, with Isserlis on inspired form. This is music that can seem overblown in the wrong hands, but here everything goes marvellously...This is an outstanding disc of glorious music, superbly played and recorded.

7th April 2013

A mood of poignant intensity characterises the three works here, played by Steven Isserlis with two different orchestras...Some ridiculed [Schelomo] as suitable only for a Hollywood epic but Isserlis conveys its simple, urgent message.

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