Brahms - Cello Sonatas [Isserlis]

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Brahms - Cello Sonatas [Isserlis]
Classical | 1 CD | EAC | APE CUE, no LOG | Scans Booklet PDF | 251 MB | RS | TT 72:58
Recorded: May 2005, St George's, Brandon Hill, UK | Released: November 2005 | Label: HYPERION
Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano)
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TOP TEN RECORDS OF THE YEAR - The Sunday Times
DISC OF THE MONTH - BBC Music Magazine
DISC OF THE WEEK - BBC Radio 3 CD Review
LISTENERS' DISC OF THE YEAR - BBC Radio 3 CD Review
EDITOR'S CHOICE - Gramophone Magazine
Recital Selection of the Month - The Strad
EXCELLENTIA AWARD - Pizzicato Magazine
'there is no doubting the sweep and passion, or the tenderness and intimacy, of their performance. These two outstanding musicians give an equally fine account of the earlier E minor sonata. In both works, and in some pleasing miniatures by Dvorak and Suk, they interact with the combined sensitivity and freedom of true chamber-music players' (The Sunday Times)

'[Isserlis's] current recording with Hough displaces all others: at last two musicians have taken this work and delivered a spontaneous stream of musical dialectic that makes perfect sense' (BBC Music Magazine)

'an evocative performance by Isserlis and his partner Stephen Hough, which marries effusive warmth and inward eloquence' (Evening Standard)

'deeply considered, immensely satisfying accounts. Isserlis and Hough make a formidable team and I look forward to more duo sonatas' (Gramophone)

'You won't find a finer or more intelligent partnership than Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough to play these mainstays of the cello repertory, nor perhaps a more imaginative or generous supporting programme. This is Brahms at its best' (The Strad)

'Isserlis and Hough are perfectly matched here, offering poetic, tender and generous spirited music-making. Both have a distinctive luminescence of tone, enabling them to place emphasis on beauty, intimacy and phrasing that really speaks' (Classic FM Magazine)

'Mr Isserlis molds his sound with a heartbreaking delicacy. You've never heard a cellist dare to take the lyrical opening of the first sonata so quietly, or inflect it so subtly. This player can also cut loose and raise the roof when it's needed. You can't pussyfoot through a movement in Brahms, and Mr Isserlis doesn't try' (Dallas News)

'One of the most happily balanced chamber music discs I have auditioned in some time, this partnership between Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough, provides some thoroughly idiomatic Brahms sonatas, played with alternate tenderness and fury, as each piece requires. Hough's piano part proves as ravishing as Isserlis' commanding cello; and in a medium in which competition abounds ... that is saying something. The Adagio affetuoso of the F Major Sonata may warrant your attentions at repeated hearings...this disc, while not specifically designated SACD, packs a resonance and liquid punch competitive with the finest sound imaging. Ravishing playing from the first notes, these collaborations testify to a meeting of kindred spirits on all levels. The liner notes by Isserlis capture the tenor of the pieces with a propriety bordering on veneration' (Audiophile Audition, USA)
Tracklist:

Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
1 Movement 1: Allegro non troppo [13'45]
2 Movement 2: Allegretto quasi menuetto [5'34]
3 Movement 3: Allegro [6'03]

4 Waldesruhe, Op 68 No 5 [5'22] Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
5 Rondo in G minor, Op 94 [7'01] Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
6 Ballade in D minor, Op 3 No 1 [4'58] Josef Suk (1874-1935)
7 Serenade in A major, Op 3 No 2 [4'50] Josef Suk (1874-1935)

Cello Sonata No 2 in F major, Op 99 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
8 Movement 1: Allegro vivace [7'58]
9 Movement 2: Adagio affettuoso [6'31]
10 Movement 3: Allegro passionato [6'46]
11 Movement 4: Allegro molto [4'10]

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