Bell and Isserlis deliver on the Brahms Double

By Robert Gainer, 10 January 2016

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“partnership playing at the very highest level”

Reviewed at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 9 January 2016

Dvořák, From the Bohemian Forest (Ze Sumavy): Silent Woods, Op.68 no.5

Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op.67

Schumann, Elegie

Brahms, Double Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op.102

Joshua Bell, Violin

Steven Isserlis, Cello

A big night for Bruckner with Simone Young and the NY Phil

Susan Stempleski, 1st May

The Australian conductor leads a superb performance of Bruckner’s Sixth paired with Steven Isserlis playing Schumann’s Cello Concerto.

****1

Singapore witnesses a completion of Schubert’s “Unfinished”

Chang Tou Liang, 20th December

Mario Venzago and Steven Isserlis share an unusual programme of Kabalevsky and Schubert at the Victoria Concert Hall.

****1

Dvořák’s music takes centre stage in the SCO's season opener

Simon Thompson, 27th September

Dvořák, the SCO and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev are a winning combination, but does Steven Isserlis steal everyone’s thunder?

****1

Rapturous devotion: Steven Isserlis and friends in Sheffield

Phil Parker, 23rd May

Late works, shadowed by death but transfigured by joy, leave the Sheffield audience enthralled at the playing of the Isserlis-Duval-Rushdie Momen trio.

*****

Championing Saint-Saëns with style: Emelyanychev, Isserlis and the OAE

Mark Pullinger, 26th January

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment dip into the late Romantic period to make the case for more Saint-Saëns in this rip-roaring concert under Russian conductor Maxim Emelyanychev.

*****

Unforgettable Elgar from Isserlis and the Hallé

Peter Connors, 8th December

Daniele Rustioni also conducts the Hallé in a gripping account of Sibelius' atmospheric Lemminkäinen Suite.

*****

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Robert Gainer

Robert Gainer has completed a BA in European Studies at the University of Warwick and an MSc in Criminology at the University of Leicester. He is currently completing further study in English and Cultural Studies, again at Warwick. He plays trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn and his musical background is in brass band and orchestra. In his spare time he enjoys writing fiction and poetry.

Bell and Isserlis deliver on the Brahms Double in Birmingham