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Steven Isserlis - Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets [CD]

Steven Isserlis - Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets [CD]

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Boccherini's cello concertos, some twelve in number, were written comparatively early in his career, all dating from the years during which he toured as a virtuoso. And by the way: what a virtuoso! Presuming that he could play his own music—which I think is a fair presumption—he must have been a truly wonderful player; one can feel it in the writing, as challenging as anything composed for the cello before the twentieth century, at least. (The great Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, an avid Boccheriniphile, considered Boccherini to have been, on the evidence of his music, the greatest cellist of all time.)

Featured on BBC Radio 3's Record Review: 'The sheer beauty and virtuosity of the music and the way, as Isserlis puts it, Boccherini's ultra-light scoring, sometimes with just cello and violins, leaves the cellist sharing the same stratosphere as they do – a remarkably translucent and ethereal effect, truly music of the angels. It is a lovely album.'

'Here all Boccherini's virtues are on full display: easy melodicism, harmonic sweetness, exquisite string textures and a personal sound world.' – The Strad

'Isserlis and friends entwine Boccherini's lyrical strands into a felicitous musical conversation: balanced, measured and dully in keeping with his gallant idiom.' – BBC Music Magazine (5 stars)

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Boccherini's cello concertos, some twelve in number, were written comparatively early in his career, all dating from the years during which he toured as a virtuoso. And by the way: what a virtuoso! Presuming that he could play his own music—which I think is a fair presumption—he must have been a truly wonderful player; one can feel it in the writing, as challenging as anything composed for the cello before the twentieth century, at least. (The great Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, an avid Boccheriniphile, considered Boccherini to have been, on the evidence of his music, the greatest cellist of all time.)

Featured on BBC Radio 3's Record Review: 'The sheer beauty and virtuosity of the music and the way, as Isserlis puts it, Boccherini's ultra-light scoring, sometimes with just cello and violins, leaves the cellist sharing the same stratosphere as they do – a remarkably translucent and ethereal effect, truly music of the angels. It is a lovely album.'

'Here all Boccherini's virtues are on full display: easy melodicism, harmonic sweetness, exquisite string textures and a personal sound world.' – The Strad

'Isserlis and friends entwine Boccherini's lyrical strands into a felicitous musical conversation: balanced, measured and dully in keeping with his gallant idiom.' – BBC Music Magazine (5 stars)

Track Listing

Cello Concerto in D major, G479 I. Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Allegro

Cello Sonata in C minor, G2b I. Allegro

II. Largo

III. Allegretto

String Quintet in D minor, G280 I. Allegro

II. Andante sostenuto

III. Fuga: Allegro giusto

Cello Sonata in F major, G9 I. Andantino

II. Adagio assai

III. Tempo di minuetto amoroso

Cello Concerto in A major 'The Frog', G475 I. Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Rondo: Allegro

String Quintet in E major, G275 III. Minuetto - Trio - Minuetto da capo

Details
  • Genre: Classical
  • Product Type: AUDIO CD
  • Barcode: 34571284446
  • Release Date: May 31, 2025
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