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List Price: $20.98 | | Label: Bis
Salesrank: 99311
Released: May 23, 2006 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Children's Cello Track Listing:
1. Berceuse Orientale, for cello & piano
2. Mad as a Hatter, for cello & piano
3. Tarantella, for cello & piano
4. Six Israeli Melodies, for cello & piano: Kinnereth (Tune: Haninah Karchevsky, arr. Stutchewsky)
5. Six Israeli Melodies, for cello & piano: Wanderer's Song (Oriental Melody, arr. Stutchewsky)
6. A Merry Dance, for cello & piano
7. A Sunday Evening in Autumn, for cello & piano
8. Cradle Song, for cello & piano
9. The Swans Glide on the Bishop's Palace Moat, for cello & piano
10. Danse rustique, for cello & piano
11. Minuet in A major, arrangement (after String Quintet in E major, Op.11/5 [aka Op. 13/5], G. 275)
12. With Miriam by the River, for cello & piano
13. 12 Easy Pieces, for cello & piano: Gavotte
14. Tempo di valse (Lulu Waltz), for cello & piano in F sharp minor
15. Work(s): Melody
16. Spring Song, for violin (or cello) & piano
17. Berceuse for violin & piano, Op. 40/2
18. La cinquantaine, for piano 'The Golden Wedding'
19. La Foi, for cello & piano
20. Work(s): Serenade
21. Serenade, for cello & piano
22. Berceuse, for violin & piano (or orchestra) in D major, Op. 16
23. Gavotte for cello & piano in D Minor, Op 23
24. Song without Words for cello & piano in D major, Op. 109
25. Requiebros for cello & piano
26. Archangel's Lullaby, for cello & piano
27. Frogs Dancing on Water Lilies, for cello & piano (or string orchestra)
28. Angelic Song, for cello & piano
29. Angelic Dance, for cello & piano
30. The Haunted House, for cello & piano
Children's Cello Reviews:
children's cello Steven Isserlis nad Stephen Houg 
2007-10-17 - 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!
2006-07-11 -
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
2006-06-12 - 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!)
