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Isserlis here achieves a beauty, finesse and attack with the cello less evident from his playing 20 years ago: his technique is phenomenal, his bowing at once wildly abandoned and absolutely... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Release Date:
31st Oct 2005
Catalogue No: CDA67529
Label: Hyperion
Length: 73 minutes
Awards:
BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Disc of the month
Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) & Rudolf Serkin (piano)
Our younger generation of cello soloists seems to favour a tone production which balances a refined upper range with a middle and lower register that's strong and well focused, rather than expansively... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…
Release Date:
5th Oct 2000
Catalogue No: 4105102
Label: DG
Length: 57 minutes
Awards:
Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Chamber Music Recording
Rudolf Serkin (piano) & Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
With playing of this calibre, with both artists wonderfully attuned to each other’s responses, every nuance tells and Brahms’s bold melodic lines soar out from the speakers (and the cello seems... — Ivan March, Gramophone Magazine, September 1983More…
Release Date:
1st Sep 2014
Catalogue No: 4793767
Label: DG
Series: Originals
Length: 57 minutes
Awards:
Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Chamber Music Recording
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano)
[Hecker and Helmchen] bring to the sonatas a seamless ensemble, producing something truly greater than the sum of its parts…their ability to control energies together creates the natural gusts... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
The best performance here is an extraordinary rendition of the First Violin Sonata. Transferred to the cello's upper strings, and played with limpid elegance, its musing character is given an... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 3 out of 5 starsMore…
Torleif Thedéen and Roland Pöntinen's performances here are on a grand scale, with opulent tone highlighted by a splendid recording...There's refinement and delicacy aplenty, too — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010More…