It's hard to find pieces of 20th century music that do justice to the wars of the period, but the music on this very fine release by the fearless British cellist Steven Isserlis does so, as much because of the combination of the pieces as because of their individual virtues. The three pieces, for cello and orchestra, embody three different attitudes toward war, as well as three different conceptions of the relationship between soloist and orchestra. The final work, Stephen Hough's The Loneliest Wilderness (2005), was ...
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It's hard to find pieces of 20th century music that do justice to the wars of the period, but the music on this very fine release by the fearless British cellist Steven Isserlis does so, as much because of the combination of the pieces as because of their individual virtues. The three pieces, for cello and orchestra, embody three different attitudes toward war, as well as three different conceptions of the relationship between soloist and orchestra. The final work, Stephen Hough's The Loneliest Wilderness (2005), was recorded at a different place and with a different orchestra (the Tapiola Sinfonietta) than the other two works and seems to have been added on, yet it is Isserlis' genius to see how well this unorthodox move would work. The program opens with Ernest Bloch's popular Schelomo (1916): not a work about war but a wartime work that pushed the composer deeper into his own Jewish heritage. The work has been accused of being excessively cinematic, but, as Isserlis points out in his excellent...
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