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| Children's Cello | 
 enlarge | Creators: Steven Isserlis, Amy Beach, Howard Blake, Luigi Boccherini, Frank Bridge, Gavin Bryars, Adam Carse, Gaspar Cassado, George Dyson, Alfred Earnshaw, Gabriel Faure, Georg Eduard Goltermann, John Graves, Stephen Hough, Ludwig Lebell, Gabriel Marie, Felix Mendelssohn, Olli Mustonen, Sheila Nelson
Label: Bis
Category: Music
List Price: $20.98
Buy New: $17.13
You Save: $3.85 (18%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 675754913328
EAN: 0675754913328
Release Date: May 23, 2006
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children's cello Steven Isserlis nad Stephen Houg October 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very beautiful and lyrical CD !
Most people have never heard of Amy Beach .Frank Bridge or George Dyson so this cd is illuminating in its lyricism .
Also this CD showcases the most melodic piece Sibelius ever wrote :the Lulu waltz.
The notes are funny and strange and give Stephen Isserlis and Stephen Hough a presence of friendship and wit.
This is an amazing cd .
Like Bach- it is eternal music for children and adults
And Stephen Isserlis is a great cellist .
TOTALLY FUN & FAB! July 11, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Every aspect of this CD gets 5 stars. (Even the cover art is adorable!) I bought this because my daughter is a cello student; I keep hoping some of that good juicy Isserlis stuff will rub off if she keeps listening to the Grand Poo Bah play. We have lots of Isserlis CDs now. This CD has 30 short songs, in a wide variety of styles. All of them are full of color and character. Anyway, it's a great collection because either you know it and love it, or you don't but you should and you will.
Stephen Hough's piano artistry is perfect, as always, and he even wrote two unique and charming cello pieces (one more than Steven Isserlis wrote!) The Isserlis one is called "The Haunted House" and I won't give away any of the surprises in it, but my kid loved it, and started sleuthing out how she thought certain things might have been done, and yours probably will, too.
The liner notes will make you laugh and are full of bits of information about the pieces, composers and the musicians.
This was really a great idea and if you are a beginning or advanced student or a teacher you will like this CD a lot. It sets a good example of what the cello sounds like when a master plays it, whether it's a two note beginner piece or something more advanced. Hearing how these are done, some students will probably be inspired to go back and have another crack at a few of their old Suzuki book pieces, which are cool pieces, too. I think the main goal here was to inspire the student cellist, but I don't play cello or piano, I'm just the mom, and I still enjoy listening to it. It's definitely worth your 20 bucks or whatever, especially if your kid plays cello.
A DELIGHT June 12, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
What a lucky little boy Steven Isserlis's son must be. His father is a leading cellist in the world and is good friends with a leading pianist of the world (Stephen Hough).The aforesaid two musicians are well known as a splendid chamber music team! Obviously (evidenced by this album) the son (Gabriel) is surrounded by great music. Also evidenced by this album, Gabriel has a loving father that is very much concerned for his musical education. This album, (that is geared towards the young would be cellist) comprises short works that are played splendidly by Hough and Isserlis.(Hough as always is the sensative accompanist;he matches Isserlis's most beautiful tones spendidly. Isserlis does play with gorgeous tones throughout this disc--he exhibits some of the most beautiful cello tones I've ever heard!) Not only children can enjoy this album but old farts like me can enjoy it too--I enjoyed the album immensely! Although the works on a "Children's Cello" require only a short attention span, they are very beautiful and intriguing (the album is filled with some of the most gorgeous short peices for cello and piano that I've ever heard!).
I particularly liked the compositions by Stutchewsky (from his "Six Israeli Melodies") along with the composition by Amy Beach. Steven and Stephen both contributed delightful compositions of their own to the recording. Isserlis's composition, "The Haunted House" has the esteemed actor, Simon Callow as narrator.
Do buy this album for any potential young musician or, like me, buy the album just to enjoy some wonderful rather unknown short works for cello and piano (some arrangements such as Boccherini's "Minute' are included also included is Mendelssohn's "Song Without Word" Opus 109)
(Steven Isserlis also wrote the notes in the album that are both informative and very humorous!)
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