Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets - Music of the Angels
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LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Quintets - Music of the Angels
Steven Isserlis (cello) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 November 2024
Has there ever been a composer of more consistent elegance?' If Steven Isserlis's rhetorical question invites the listener to think of plausible
alternatives, on the evidence of this wonderful album-an imaginative selection of Boccherini's cello concertos and cello-centric chamber music- they are most unlikely to succeed. This is truly 'music of the angels', with performances to match.
"This is elegant playing, for sure, but it has an irresistible glint in its eye. Isserlis finds a near-ideal tension between lyricism and effervescence." Gramophone
"The music flows with a natural ease and a lively disposition, and often exploits the cello's top register, requiring extra dexterity. No problem for Isserlis. Elsewhere, everyone skips along benignly in music that regularly changes mood without losing its poise." The Sunday Times
'Why is the album called 'Music of the Angels'? 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. As he puts it, a 'remarkably translucent and ethereal' effect; truly, music of the angels. It's a lovely album' (BBC Record Review)
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Tracks:
Cello Concerto in D major G479
Cello Sonata in C minor G2b
String Quintet in D minor G280
Cello Sonata in F major G9
Cello Concerto in A major 'The Frog', G475
Minuetto - Trio - Minuetto da capo (Movement 3 of String Quintet in E major, G275)
