Showing posts with label Steven Isserlis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steven Isserlis. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Happy big birthday, Steven Isserlis!

›
Steven Isserlis is 60 today! I have flipping' well missed his big birthday concert on Monday at the Wigmore Hall - which included appe...
Friday, December 07, 2018

Need a place to rehearse? This may have the answer...

›
Last week I went north of the river to interview Steven Isserlis about a certain big birthday he has this month, to be celebrated with some ...
Thursday, June 08, 2017

An election on Schumann's birthday

›
It's Schumann's birthday. Here is Steven Isserlis, one of today's greatest Schumannians, in his Cello Concerto. The composer f...
Friday, September 16, 2016

When Steven met Schumann...

›
Steven Isserlis is one of those infuriating musicians who writes as well as he plays. His latest book is just out and it is a revisiting of ...
Monday, February 02, 2015

Amati: In which I treat a great cellist to lunch

›
The Amati Magazine, redesigned and under new editorship, kicks off in earnest today with my first Editor's Lunch: a series in which I tr...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

If instruments could speak...

›
I've been having a little fun for Sinfini, "interviewing" two Stradivarius violins, the 'Gibson' (Josh Bell's) and...
Saturday, October 08, 2011

Hungarian musical tradition alive and well and living in Cornwall

›
Speaking of Hungary...my piece in this month's issue of Standpoint Magazine is all about the International Musicians' Seminar, Pru...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

When Steven met Slava

›
Ace cellist Steven Isserlis has a personal tribute to Rostropovich in today's Grauniad. Steven's one of those rare musicians who w...
Sunday, August 06, 2006

When Steven met Clara...

›
Here is Steven Isserlis's take on the Schumann, Clara & Brahms story , from yesterday's Guardian. Today, in Aldeburgh, he and Si...