Composer: Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich
Performer: Steven Isserlis
Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Paavo Järvi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68037
Release: 2015
Size: 649 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Prokofiev: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 58
01. I. Andante
02. II. Allegro giusto
03. IIIa. Tema: Allegro – Interludio: L’istesso tempo
04. IIIb. Variation 1: L’istesso tempo
05. IIIc. Variation 2: Vivace
06. IIId. Variation 3: Andantino tranquillo – Interludio II: Tempo I –
07. IIIe. Variation 4: L’istesso tempo –
08. IIIf. Reminiscenza: Meno mosso
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107
09. I. Allegretto
10. II. Moderato
11. III. Cadenza –
12. IV. Allegro con moto
Prokofiev: Music for Children, Op. 65
13. X. March
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.