Steven Isserlis - Prokofiev, Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (2015)
Steven Isserlis - Prokofiev, Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (2015)
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 298 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 157 MB | 1 CD | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 68037
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 298 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 157 MB | 1 CD | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 68037
A thrilling album from Steven Isserlis couples the ground-breaking Prokofiev Cello Concerto from the 1930s with Shostakovich’s eruptive response to it written for Rostropovich in 1959. These seminal works mark the cello’s coming of age, enveloping its trademark rhapsodic lyricism in a newly visceral passion. Paavo Järvi makes his Hyperion debut, conducting an ebullient Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and providing the ideal foil to Isserlis’s impassioned virtuosity.
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich
Performer: Steven Isserlis
Conductor: Paavo Järvi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Reviews: Isserlis conjures up some surprising, visceral sounds from his instrument, ratcheting up the tension with a febrile, nervy vibrato up high. –Gramophone, Mar '15
Prokofiev began writing his Cello Concerto for the great Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky in the early 1930s. The work was completed after Prokofiev's 1936 return to Moscow, meaning that Piatigorsky, as a Soviet refugee, was no longer able to give the premiere. Several unsuccessful performances led to the concerto falling into obscurity, until Prokofiev's post-war decision to rewrite the piece for the young Rostropovich as his Op.125Symphony-Concerto. Here, Steven Isserlis gives us the composer's first thoughts, and it's hard to understand why such a dramatic, melodic and approachable work has been so neglected. It grips from the outset, the cello melody heard over a stabbing, ticking ostinato that couldn t have been written by anyone else. Conductor Paavo Järvi rightly emphasises Prokofiev's sinuous writing for lower strings and tuba. Things get better still in the central Scherzo, 11 hyperactive minutes sounding like a collection of the best bits of Prokofiev you've not yet heard. Isserlis's gutsy, passionate playing defies belief, notably in the extended finale s sequence of variations. The concerto's uncompromising, violent close is devastating fast, major key music which leaves a defiantly bitter aftertaste. As a coupling, Isserlis and Järvi give us Shostakovich's taut, compact Cello Concerto no 1. Prokofiev's concerto is epic and darkly romantic; this one is pithy and ironic. This performance is up with the best; Isserlis's warm, sonorous tone a real asset in the slow movement and extended cadenza. The Allegro con moto 's riotous close is both witty and disturbing. Isserlis throws in a delicious encore as a palate-cleanser: Piatigorsky's solo cello arrangement of a short march from Prokofiev's piano suite Music for Children. Hyperion's engineering is impeccable –ArtsDesk, 11/4/15
Prokofiev's Concerto is all the more troubling in isserlis's performance. Isserlis plays with crazed brilliance. Performance ***** Recording ***** BBC MUSIC CONCERTO CHOICE BBC Music Magazine, May'15./// Reranged nuns, inveterate gamblers and fairytale princesses are stock-in-trade characters for Prokofiev s operas, and it doesn t take a wild imaginative leap to hear such fantastical characters peopling the busy, welcoming sprawl of his Cello Concerto like a comic-book city. It's thanks to Steven Isserlis, who makes a piece with a chequered history and difficult reputation sound like a masterpiece completely characteristic of its creator. In his hands, the yearning melody of the opening Andante is worthy of Romeo and Juliet (also composed in the mid-1930s), while the Scherzo's rough humour jabs you in the ribs like a red-nosed joker from Gogol thanks to punchy support from the winds of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Even the rambling variations of the finale are held together with a very timely narrative of one man against many, elucidated by Isserlis in a passionately argued booklet note: 'The better I know it, the more I love it', he says, and sympathetic listeners will feel the same. Shostakovich's First Concerto may require less personal advocacy, but Isserlis steps out from Rostropovich's bear-like shadow in this music to present another confrontation between individuality and the mechanistic forces of unknowable power. There's a wonderful moment in the second movement where a waltz drifts in like a ghost orchestra in a deserted ballroom, and Paavo Järvi works hand in glove with his soloist throughout, offering more positive and detailed support than Isserlis received on a recent DVD of the work with different accompanists. It's an unmissable disc. ***** –Sinfini Music , 16/4/15
Tracklisting:
1. Andante
2. Allegro Giusto
3. Tema: Allegro - Interludio: L'istesso Tempo
4. Variation 1: L'istesso Tempo
5. Variation 2: Vivace
6. Variation 3: Andantino Tranquillo - Interludio II: Tempo I
7. Variation 4: L'istesso Tempo
8. Reminiscenza: Meno Mosso
9. Coda: Poco Più Sostenuto
10. Allegretto
11. Moderato
12. Cadenza
13. Allegro Con Moto
14. March
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