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British solo cello music
Steven Isserlis (cello), Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
Ever the scholar, he takes a deep dive into Britten’s Third Suite…The performance itself digs deep. This is, as he says, a meditation on mortality. Isserlis makes it huge, and terrifying, fired...
British solo cello music
Steven Isserlis (cello), Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
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Ever the scholar, he takes a deep dive into Britten’s Third Suite…The performance itself digs deep. This is, as he says, a meditation on mortality. Isserlis makes it huge, and terrifying, fired...
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If Britten’s Cello Suite No 3 is the undisputed masterpiece here, the other works are no less deserving of attention, Frank Merrick’s ‘Suite in the eighteenth-century style’ being a particular delight. As ever, Steven Isserlis’s booklet notes offer fascinatingly personal perspectives on the composers and their music.
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December 2021
Ever the scholar, he takes a deep dive into Britten’s Third Suite…The performance itself digs deep. This is, as he says, a meditation on mortality. Isserlis makes it huge, and terrifying, fired by an incandescent spirituality. Please, can we have the first two suites now?
26th September 2021
Isserlis’s lockdown project is a fascinating collection of interconnected solo cello pieces: Bach, the Russian master-cellist, and Isserlis himself are the links...but the Britten Suite is the meatiest item here: truly a “meditation” on death, as Isserlis calls it, and played with a technical and musical conviction worthy of its creators.
