Steven Isserlis' passionate and improvisatory reading of Dvořák in Istanbul

By Alain Matalon, 08 June 2014

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Reviewed at İş Sanat, Istanbul on 4 June 2014

Smetana, Má vlast: Vltava (The Moldau)

Dvořák, Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104

Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Suite, Op.20a

Hakan Şensoy, Conductor

Steven Isserlis, Cello

Milli Reasürans Chamber Orchestra

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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