Mendelssohn, Grieg & Hough: Cello Sonatas

Isserlis, Steven & Stephen Hough

Genre: Classical

CD | 1 disc(s) | Release: 31-05-2015

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€ 20.95

Extra info

Maatschappij:	Universal
Label:	Hyperion
Barcode:	0034571280790
Suffix - prefix:	128079 003457
Taal:	EN
Herkomst:	Holland

Beschrijving

Steven Isserlis (cello) & Stephen Hough (piano)

Grieg’s sole Cello Sonata has long been a favourite of performers and audiences, if not of musical theorists, and here receives an impassioned vote of confidence from Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough at the head of a programme which takes the listener forwards in time to Hough’s own Sonata for cello and piano left hand and back to Mendelssohn’s ever-popular Cello Sonata No 2. A spirit of passionate romanticism unifies the whole.

Grieg:
Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36

Hough:
Sonata for cello and piano left hand 'Les adieux'

Mendelssohn:
Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58

"Everywhere their reading [of the Grieg] glints with conviction...Isserlis is matchless in the way he tugs at the simple melody to heart-rending effect...[The Hough is] unafraid to breathe an air of nostalgia...but the results are refreshingly personal...The performance couldn't be more persuasive and the two players are beautifully recorded."
Gramophone Magazine - July 2015

"If any reminder were needed that Steven Isserlis is at the top of his game, this is it...Their opening Allegro agitato is a thrilling tour de force, Isserlis sinewy and febrile, Hough's sound lucid and full-bodied with an ideal recorded balance."
BBC Music Magazine - August 2015 *****