Cat No:
CDA68025
Release Date: 01 January 2014
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571280257
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
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Description
In 1989 the young pianist Sam Haywood was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Julius Isserlis Scholarship. Years later, having become friends with Julius’s grandson Steven, Sam came across some of Julius’s piano compositions in a drawer at the house of George, Julius’s son. The editions were unclear and full of printing errors; so, struck by the beauty of the music, Sam decided to make his own edition, the fruits of which are to be heard on this recording. Julius Isserlis was born in 1888 in Kishinev (now Chisinau in Moldova, though then part of Russia). He studied with, among others, Taneyev and Widor. As a Jew, he was exiled from Moscow, escaped from Vienna in 1938 and spent the rest of his life in London. Isserlis’s greatest passion was for the music of Frederic Chopin, who seems to have been his strongest influence. Nevertheless, his music retains its own very distinctive voice. Many of the short pieces are in minor keys and are pervaded by a yearning melancholy reminiscent of Slavic songs and folk dances. The playful virtuosity of several of the works is an indication not only of Isserlis’s own agility on the keyboard but also of that of their dedicatees (including Pablo Casals, who inspired the Ballade for cello and piano for which Sam Haywood is here joined by Steven Isserlis). -
Tracklisting
- 1. <b>Ballade in G minor</b> Op 3 No 1 [3'35]
- 2. <b>Ballade in E flat minor</b> Op 3 No 2 [5'07]
- 3. <b>Moment triste</b> [1'49]
- 4. <b>Ten Preludes</b> Op 2 | No 1 in C major | Andante [2'31]
- 5. <b>Ten Preludes</b> Op 2 | No 2 in C minor | Andante [2'00]
- 6. <b>Ten Preludes</b> Op 2 | No 4 in B minor | Allegretto [1'27]
- 7. <b>Ten Preludes</b> Op 2 | No 6 in F minor | Allegretto [1'31]
- 8. <b>Ten Preludes</b> Op 2 | No 7 in F minor | Allegro vivace [1'33]
- 9. <b>Ten Preludes</b> Op 2 | No 8 in E flat major | Andante [1'30]
- 10. <b>Ten Preludes</b> Op 2 | No 10 in G minor | Allegretto [1'18]
- 11. <b>Prelude exotique</b> Op 10 No 2 [2'24]
- 12. <b>Toccata in fourths</b> Op 10 No 1 [1'42]
- 13. <b>Ballade in A minor</b> [8'40] - Sam Haywood/Steven Isserlis
- 14. <b>Skazka</b> Fairy Tale Op 6 [3'29]
- 15. <b>Drei Klavierstücke</b> Op 8 | Moment musical [0'47]
- 16. <b>Drei Klavierstücke</b> Op 8 | Meditation [2'53]
- 17. <b>Drei Klavierstücke</b> Op 8 | The flight of the swallow [1'01]
- 18. <b>Souvenir russe</b> Op 9 [2'18]
- 19. <b>Capriccio in A minor</b> Op 12 [1'43]
- 20. <b>Memories of Childhood</b> Op 11 | The lonely brook in the forest [1'44]
- 21. <b>Memories of Childhood</b> Op 11 | In the Steppes [1'28]
- 22. <b>Memories of Childhood</b> Op 11 | The bumblebee [0'53]
- 23. <b>Memories of Childhood</b> Op 11 | Once in autumn [2'00]
- 24. <b>Memories of Childhood</b> Op 11 | Marionettes [1'26]
- 25. <b>Memories of Childhood</b> Op 11 | A peasant wedding [2'12]
- 26. <b>Warum?</b> [2'17]
- 27. <b>Russian Dance</b> Op 7 [3'05]
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