

The hook here is Steven Isserlis’ performances using a “trench cello”–a dismantle-able, portable instrument played by soldiers in First World War trenches–and the recording’s producers

Prokofiev’s Cello Concerto Op. 58 is a major work. It

The best disc in this five-CD set of the nine

I may have missed it, but I don’t recall seeing a line of people creeping down Fifth Avenue waiting to be the first to own

As these eight CDs reveal, there’s more Britten orchestral music

Steven Isserlis first recorded Brahms’ cello sonatas for Hyperion in the mid-1980s with Peter Evans at the piano, in sensitive, forthright, and excellently engineered interpretations.

Centuries before Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar inaugurated the World Music “crossover” craze, none other than J.S. Bach encountered an anonymous Indian tabla virtuoso traveling

Until now, only Torleif Thedéen’s BIS account of Saint-Saëns’ little-known Cello Concerto No. 2 (written in 1902) with the Tapiola Sinfonietta under Jean-Jacques Kantorow has

This disc offers a convenient way to acquire all three of these excellent Barber concertos, even though, as in the case of the works for

This survey of Strauss cello works includes one of the finest Don Quixotes since Pierre Fournier’s matchlessly aristocratic Berlin and Cleveland accounts. Steven Isserlis first
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