A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis
Steven Isserlis enjoys a unique and multi-faceted career as soloist, chamber musician and educator. He appears regularly with the world's leading orchestras, gives recitals every season in major musical centres, devises fascinating chamber music programmes, performs with many period-instrument ensembles, plays and writes for children, and with many living composers. He has written two children's books, and gives masterclasses worldwide. For the past eighteen years he has been Artistic Director of the International Musicians' Seminar atPrussia Cove, Cornwall.
PRAISE FOR SCHUMAN'S ADVICE TO YOUNG MUSICIANS "How much wisdom can
be packed into one slim volume? Isserlis has taken Schumann's
aphorisms for young musicians and set them in a modern context from
the point of view of one of today's outstanding performers. The
result is humourous, down-to-earth and quirky." -- Financial Times
Book of the Year "With deft prose - clear enough for children,
profound enough for professionals - he meditates concisely on
Schumann's pointers towards essential musicianship ... No musician
or music lover should be without it." -- BBC Music Magazine "This
book is an absolute joy from start to finish. So much so that I
read it in one sitting, busily making notes in the margin and
nodding my head in agreement." -- The Cross Eyed Pianist
"Isserlis has done the impossible. He has given the listener
something new, and indeed something outstandingly good . . . This
recording [of Bach's Cello Suites] can sit proudly on the shelf
alongside the great recordings of Casals and Rostropovich. In fact,
I may find myself picking it up as the favorite." -- BBC Radio 3,
CD Review Disc of the Week "This is the most wonderful
cello-playing, surely among the most consistently beautiful to have
been heard in this demanding music [Bach's Cello Suites), as well
as the most musically alert and vivid . . . few will fail to be
charmed by Isserlis's sweet singing tone, his perfectly voiced
chords and superb control of articulation and dynamic . . . a disc
many will want to return to again and again." -- Gramophone
Magazine "In his writing, as in his playing, Steven makes hard work
seem effortless. He's the master of the material, yet always able
to make it accessible. In The Bach Cello Suites he explains often
difficult technical detail with great joy and humor. For someone
like me, who doesn't know their gavotte from their elbow, it is an
absolute treat to be led to this sublime music by such an
enthusiastic expert." -- Michael Palin "Striking...A companion book
to keep close, to dog-ear and take on the train, the start of a
conversation not the end of the argument." -- Spectator "Isserlis
produces an illuminating, accessible and detailed analysis of one
of Bach's seminal works." -- Observer "The book I've always wanted:
an accessible, eloquent guide to the world's greatest -- and maybe
most elusive -- pieces of music. And written by the man I'd want to
tell me about it. This is such a delight." -- Derren Brown
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