New. Bach: Cello Suites
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Record Review, December 2007, Listeners' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Instrumental
A completely new and inspiring benchmark for this unique tour de force.
New. Bach: Cello Suites
Steven Isserlis (cello)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Record Review, December 2007, Listeners' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Instrumental
A completely new and inspiring benchmark for this unique tour de force.
About
Steven Isserlis's award-winning discography spans his diverse interests in repertoire and his musicological enthusiasm, as well as demonstrating his supreme artistry and uniquely beautiful sound, and his first recording of the complete Bach cello suites is an indelibly important addition to the set.
Steven writes that the Bach suites are works of such total perfection, such sublimity, that it is well-nigh impossible to feel ready for them. He has proved more than adequate to the task and this release is a triumphant conclusion to an artistic pilgrimage. Steven's eloquent booklet notes reveal his personal thoughts about the suites, as well as extensive academic research. His is an interpretation that has come from his passionate involvement in the music rather than from following the various theories that abound in Bach scholarship, and he discusses it fully in an article which is a perfect complement to this wonderful release.
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineJune 2007Recording of the Month
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Record ReviewDecember 2007Critics' Disc of the Year
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Record ReviewDecember 2007Listeners' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone MagazineJuly 2007Editor's Choice
June 2007
A completely new and inspiring benchmark for this unique tour de force.
22nd May 2007
Isserlis has done the impossible. He has given the listener something new, and indeed something outstandingly good...He suggests that their expressive journey marks them as “Mystery Suites”, travelling from the nativity...to the Resurrection...Unusual as the decision is, it does work.
July 2007
The most wonderful cello-playing, surely among the most consistently beautiful to have been heard in this demanding music, as well as the most musically alert and vivid. …few will fail to be charmed by Isserlis's sweetly singing tone, his perfectly voiced chords and superb control of articulation and dynamic - the way the final chord of the First Prélude dies away is spellbinding.
The stuff of legend.
4th May 2007
Isserlis is a passionate musician, but never thoughtless or frivolous, and the delicacy of his responses on this wonderful set sometimes take the breath away. If your soul fails to quiver in the quiet depths of the fifth suite’s sarabande, then you must be a robot in disguise.
Classic FM July 2011
Isserlis couples scholarly depth with technical wizardry and exuberant passion. Time stands still at the intensely moving Fifth Sarabande. Supreme recordings.
