Dvorak cello concerto steven isserlis biography

Gabriel isserlis

Isserlis is committed to authentic performance and also frequently performs with period instrument orchestras. He has performed Beethoven with fortepianist Robert Levin in Boston and London, and Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Sir Simon Rattle.

Steven isserlis partner Dvořák initially had reservations about composing a cello concerto, believing the instrument was better suited for orchestral and chamber music. What do you think prompted his change of heart, and how did he manage to overcome his initial scepticism to create such a masterpiece?.

British cellist Steven Isserlis, Dvorak's Cello Concerto in A major () fits into all three of those categories, but that didn't dissuade the German composer and musicologist Gunter Raphael, in the s, from unearthing it in the first place; and, what's more, abridging and orchestrating it.

Steven Isserlis is a Recent seasons have seen him perform Dvorak's Cello Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Simon Rattle, and L.v. Beethoven's complete works for cello and keyboard with fortepianist Robert Levin in Boston and London, as well as Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra with Nicholas McGegan.

It was written in Steven Isserlis performs Dvorak's Cello Concerto at Fairfield Hall, Croydon, on 29 January ( ), Cheltenham Town Hall on 1 February ( ), Bedford Corn Exchange on.

dvorak cello concerto steven isserlis biography

Hyperion is delighted to Other recent releases include the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding; the complete works for cello by Beethoven with Robert Levin on fortepiano, selected for the Deutsche SchallplattenPreis; and recital discs with Thomas Adès and Olli Mustonen.

Acclaimed worldwide for his Isserlis brings his musicological enthusiasm into the recording studio with CD's such as 'Forgotten Romance, Cello World', a disc of trios by Brahms, Schumann and Frühling and a recording of Saint-Sa&@;ns' Cello Concerto No. 2.

Steven Isserlis is a remarkable In one of the teachers at the Conservatory, Victor Herbert, also a composer, finished his Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 30, and premiered it in a series of concerts, commencing on March 9. [3] Dvořák heard at least two performances of the piece and was inspired to fulfill Wihan's request in composing a cello concerto of his own.