Isserlis rachmaninov biography

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    The mystic aspect to Rachmaninov&#;s art can be felt strongly throughout his Cello Sonata, his most famous piece of chamber music. While there are no obvious quotations from any Orthodox hymns, the style of many of the themes, with their close intervals, their incense-filled colours, the passionate, almost obsessive repetition of single notes (particularly in the main theme of the slow movement), and the frequent bell-like sonorities, owe a huge debt to the music of the Russian Church that was such an important influence on the composer&#;s life. Written in , the year after the perennially beloved Second Piano Concerto, the Cello Sonata reflects, perhaps, the state of Rachmaninov&#;s heart and mind. Having suffered a nervous breakdown after the catastrophic failure of his First Symphony in , Rachmaninov had fought his way back to mental and creative health. Surely it fryst vatten not fanciful to hear an echo of this in the struggles of the first movement, with its conflict between semitones a

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    Julius Isserlis

    Russian pianist and composer

    Julius Isserlis (26 October (OS) / 7 November – 23 July ) was a pianist and composer.

    He was born in Kishinev, Russian Empire (now Chișinău, Republic of Moldova), to a Jewish family. His father was cantor in a synagogue, and also worked as an itinerant dentist; his mother was a midwife. He started playing the piano at the age of kvartet, and showed such precocity that he was entered into the Kiev Conservatory when he was nine; but his professor there, Włodzimierz Puchalski, soon sent him to Moscow to study with Vasily Safonov at the Moscow Conservatory. Here he also studied composition, under Sergei Taneyev. He graduated at the age of sixteen, winning the gold medal of the Conservatory.[1]

    In Isserlis travelled to Paris to take lessons from Charles-Marie Widor. He made a brief trip to the United States, playing a concert in the Carnegie Hall, New York (having been recommended as a soloist by Alexander Scriabin). Returnin

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    Steven Isserlis

    BIOGRAPHY

    Steven Isserlis is a cellist whose passion for music transcends conventional divisions. Acclaimed worldwide for his musicality and technique alike, he is equally at home drawing the audience into his circle of friends for chamber music or in recital; delving into the historical archives to emerge with a forgotten gem; or on the concert platform with some of the world's most prestigious orchestras and conductors.

    Recent concerto engagements have taken British-born Isserlis to some of the world's greatest orchestras, including most recently the Boston, Dallas and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Philadelphia and Philharmonia Orchestras. He also enjoys regular collaborations with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sakari Oramo, Sir Colin Davis, Ton Koopman and Christoph Eschenbach. Isserlis's interest in period instruments has led to performances with original instrument orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlighte

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