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Children's Cello
Composer
Various Composers
Performer
Stephen Hough
Steven Isserlis
Catalogue Number
BIS-1562 CD
EAN
7318590015629
Format
CD
Release date
Apr 2006
Total time
81'15
Double 5 star review,
BBC Music Magazine
Instrumental Disc of the Month,
Classic FM Magazine
In this recital of known and unknown gems from the repertoire for aspiring cellists, Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough make full use of their consummate musicianship in carving each of the 30 tracks into beautiful miniatures. Pieces that cello students have played – and their teachers (not to mention parents) have heard – over and over again stand out as fresh as if they were composed for this occasion.
The programme ranges progressively from Ludwig Lebell’s Berceuse, which only employs open strings, to Cassadó’s Requiebros, described in Isserlis’s own liner notes as 'something holding real challenges for the young cellist (and indeed for the fast-aging one!)'.
It’s not only the level of technical difficulties that varies: the styles are almost as many as the pieces themselves. A number of different idioms – English, French, Hungarian and Israeli, Victorian, Baroque and contemporary – are all conveyed in accents that ring completely true.
This unique disc was inspired by after-dinner serenades at Steven Isserlis’s home, where his son Gabriel would perform his current cello assignments, sometimes accompanied by Hough. (Gabriel’s contribution to the enterprise is attested to by the final section on the disc, Gabriel’s Corner, made up of works composed for him by, among others, Isserlis and Hough themselves.) Isserlis writes: 'Eventually, we decided that we wanted to play some of the pieces ourselves, for our own sakes as much as for those of the children we were hoping to inspire – and thus this album was born.' The performers’ enjoyment certainly shines through during the full 81 minutes of the disc – an enjoyment that will be shared by every listener, whatever his or her connection to the noble art of cello playing. A bonus, in the form of actor Simon Callow narrating a ghost story with a twist over the sound effects of Steven Isserlis’s The Haunted House, makes the disc a truly special experience.
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Ludwig Lebell
01
Berceuse Orientale
1'47
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Sheila Nelson
02
Mad as a Hatter
0'33
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Alfred Earnshaw
03
Tarantella
1'22
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Joachim Stutchewsky
04
Kinnereth (tune by Haninah Karchevsky)
2'22
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Joachim Stutchewsky
05
Wanderer’s Song (Oriental Melody)
2'36
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Adam Carse
06
A Merry Dance
1'47
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Francis Purcell Warren
07
A Sunday Evening in Autumn
2'22
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Francis Purcell Warren
08
Cradle Song
1'09
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John Graves
09
The Swans glide on the Bishop’s Palace moat
1'51
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William Henry Squire
10
Danse Rustique
2'41
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Luigi Boccherini
11
Minuet (arr. Goltermann)
3'43
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Gavin Bryars
12
With Miriam by the River
3'30
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Arnold Trowell
13
Gavotte from 12 Easy Pieces
1'48
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Jean Sibelius
14
Lulu Waltz
0'48
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George Dyson
15
Melody
2'38
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Frank Bridge
16
Spring Song
2'24
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Amy Beach
17
Berceuse
3'06
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Gabriel Prosper Marie
18
La Cinquantaine
3'30
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Georg Goltermann
19
La Foi
3'33
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Francis Poulenc
20
Serenade (arr. Maurice Gendron)
1'55
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Joseph Tuby
21
Serenade
2'31
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Gabriel Fauré
22
Berceuse
3'47
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David Popper
23
Gavotte, Op. 23
4'39
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
24
Song Without Words, Op. 109
4'39
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Gaspar Cassadó
25
Requiebros
4'52
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Howard Blake
26
Archangel’s Lullaby
1'31
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Olli Mustonen
27
Frogs Dancing on Water-Lilies
3'07
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Stephen Hough
28
Angelic Song
2'12
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Stephen Hough
29
Angelic Dance
1'29
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Steven Isserlis
30
The Haunted House
4'03
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Album total
81'15
Cello
Isserlis, Steven
Piano
Hough, Stephen
Composer
Beach, Amy
Blake, Howard
Boccherini, Luigi
Bridge, Frank
Bryars, Gavin
Carse, Adam
Cassadó, Gaspar
Dyson, George
Earnshaw, Alfred
Fauré, Gabriel
Goltermann, Georg
Graves, John
Hough, Stephen
Isserlis, Steven
Lebell, Ludwig
Marie, Gabriel Prosper
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix
Mustonen, Olli
Nelson, Sheila
Popper, David
Poulenc, Francis
Sibelius, Jean
Squire, William Henry
Stutchewsky, Joachim
Trowell, Arnold
Tuby, Joseph
Warren, Francis Purcell
Narrator
Callow, Simon
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