reVisions
Steven Isserlis plays arrangements of works
BIS 1782 (SACD)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Gábor Takács-Nagy (chef d'orchestre)
2010
58:10
Claude Debussy : Suite pour violoncelle et orchestre (Arr. Sally Beamish)
Composition arranged by Sally Beamish (whose husband is a cellist) who got together various small fragments done by Debussy and made of them a Suite pour violoncelle et Orchestre.
Only the Intermezzo and the Scherzo were Debussy originals. Beamish added three new movements from Debussy's early works, two of them being Danse Bohémienne and Rêverie and the third being his Nuit d'étoiles.
  1. Prélude (Intermezzo) (5:06)
  2. Rêverie (4:35)
  3. Scherzo (4:07)
  4. Nocturne (2:49)
  5. Danse bohémienne (3:43)
Maurice Ravel : Deux mélodies hébraïques pour violoncelle et orchestre (Arr. Richard Tognetti)
  1. Kaddish (5:19)
  2. L'énigme éternelle (1:27)
Sergei Prokofiev : Concertino pour violoncelle et orchestre Op.132 (Arr. Vladimir Blok)
Prokfieff's Concertino For Cello And Orchestra was left unfinished at the time of the composer's death. From the extant material a performing version was prepared by Mstislav Rostropovich for Cello and Piano.
Dmitri Kabalevsky then scored the completed Concertino for full Orchestra, and the work was premiered by Rostropovich in 1960 at the Moscow Conservatoire.
  1. Andante mosso (9:11)
  2. Andante (5:06)
  3. Allegretto (5:21)
Ernest Bloch : From Jewish Life pour violoncelle et orchestre (Arr. Christopher Palmer)
  1. Jewish song (3:00)
  2. Supplication (2:54)
  3. Prayer (5:24)