from Mendelssohn, Grieg & Hough: Cello Sonatas (CDA68079) 1 Allegro assai vivace [7'36] 25 minutes 6 seconds 4 tracks2 Allegretto scherzando [5'16] 3 Adagio [5'16] 4 Molto allegro e vivace [6'58] ‘The performance couldn’t be more persuasive and the two players are beautifully recorded, with Isserlis providing typically engaging notes’ (Gramophone) BBC Music Magazine ‘Grieg's Cello Sonata encompasses a wide-ranging emotional landscape, to which Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough, a magnificent partnership, respond with big-hearted playing’ (The Strad) |