034571284446

Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets

Steven Isserlis

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA68444

Release Date:  01 November 2024

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571284446

Genres:  Classical  Baroque  

  • Description

    Boccherini's cello concertos, some twelve in number, were written comparatively early in his career, all dating from the years during which he toured as a virtuoso. And by the way: what a virtuoso! Presuming that he could play his own music—which I think is a fair presumption—he must have been a truly wonderful player; one can feel it in the writing, as challenging as anything composed for the cello before the twentieth century, at least. (The great Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, an avid Boccheriniphile, considered Boccherini to have been, on the evidence of his music, the greatest cellist of all time.)

    Featured on BBC Radio 3's Record Review: 'The sheer beauty and virtuosity of the music and the way, as Isserlis puts it, Boccherini's ultra-light scoring, sometimes with just cello and violins, leaves the cellist sharing the same stratosphere as they do – a remarkably translucent and ethereal effect, truly music of the angels. It is a lovely album.'



    'Here all Boccherini's virtues are on full display: easy melodicism, harmonic sweetness, exquisite string textures and a personal sound world.' – The Strad

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Cello Concerto in D major, G479 I. Allegro
      • 2. II. Adagio
      • 3. III. Allegro
      • 4. Cello Sonata in C minor, G2b I. Allegro
      • 5. II. Largo
      • 6. III. Allegretto
      • 7. String Quintet in D minor, G280 I. Allegro
      • 8. II. Andante sostenuto
      • 9. III. Fuga: Allegro giusto
      • 10. Cello Sonata in F major, G9 I. Andantino
      • 11. II. Adagio assai
      • 12. III. Tempo di minuetto amoroso
      • 13. Cello Concerto in A major 'The Frog', G475 I. Allegro
      • 14. II. Adagio
      • 15. III. Rondo: Allegro
      • 16. String Quintet in E major, G275 III. Minuetto - Trio - Minuetto da capo