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Steven Isserlis – reVisions

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Catalogue numberBIS-1782 SACD
Release date2010-07-24
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time58:10

Steven Isserlis has earned a reputation as one of the foremost cellists of our day. At the same time he has become known for his ingenuity and innovation in programming, something which this disc is the perfect example of. It combines four works for cello and orchestra that wouldn't even exist without Isserlis - all arrangements made at his personal request, and each of them by the arranger of his personal choice. The most radical reworking is the opening piece, an arrangement based on the fact that Debussy at the age of 19 composed a Suite for cello and orchestra. All that is known for certain about this suite is that its fourth movement was called Intermezzo, and that this piece has survived in a version for cello and piano. In her imaginative reconstruction of - or rather replacement for - Debussy's original composition, Sally Beamish has used this piece as the opening movement, going on to construct orchestral arrangements of four other Debussy works from the same period, including the piano pieces Rêverie and Danse bohémienne. The two Ravel songs which follow were arranged by Isserlis' friend, the violinist Richard Tognetti in order to supplement the concert programme for a tour that the two were to make with Tognetti's own Australian Chamber Orchestra. Vladimir Blok's orchestration of Prokofiev's Concertino, which had been left incomplete at the death of the composer, was made as Isserlis was unhappy with the existing arrangement of the work, made by Kabalevsky. The disc closes with the earliest of these four re-visions, film composer Christopher Palmer's orchestration of Ernest Bloch's From Jewish Life, allowing the disc to end with the movement entitled Prayer - 'one of the most fervently beautiful pieces ever written for the cello', according to Steven Isserlis himself. Throughout the programme Isserlis receives the expert support of Tapiola Sinfonietta conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.
 
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  Composer: Debussy, Claude
  Suite pour Violoncelle et Orchestre, arr. Sally Beamish 19:48
01 I. Prélude (Intermezzo) 05:02 $ 1.06 USD
02 II. Rêverie 04:32 $ 0.95 USD
03 III. Scherzo 04:02 $ 0.85 USD
04 IV. Nocturne 02:45 $ 0.58 USD
05 V. Danse bohémienne 03:27 $ 0.72 USD
 
 
  Composer: Ravel, Maurice
  Deux mélodies hébraïques, arr. Richard Tognetti 06:31
06 I. Kaddisch 05:16 $ 1.11 USD
07 II. L’énigme éternelle 01:15 $ 0.26 USD
 
 
  Composer: Prokofiev, Sergei
  Concertino for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op.132 19:17
08 I. Andante mosso (cadenza: Olli Mustonen) 09:06 $ 1.91 USD
09 II. Andante 05:03 $ 1.06 USD
10 III. Allegretto 05:08 $ 1.08 USD
 
 
  Composer: Bloch, Ernest
  From Jewish Life, arr. Christopher Palmer 10:44
11 Jewish Song 02:58 $ 0.62 USD
12 Supplication 02:52 $ 0.60 USD
13 Prayer 04:54 $ 1.03 USD
 
  Album total 58:10
OrchestraTapiola Sinfonietta
ComposerBloch, Ernest
Debussy, Claude
Prokofiev, Sergei
Ravel, Maurice
ConductorTakács-Nagy, Gábor
CelloIsserlis, Steven

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