Prokofiev • Shostakovich

Prokofiev: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 58, Music for Children, Op. 65 - March (arr. Piatigorsky) • Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107

Daniel Jaffé

Published: April 8, 2015 at 12:56 pm

‘Järvi now directs a most dramatic and colourful live performance. This is the Concerto’s third complete recording … other versions having used chopped and reshaped finales: I doubt anyone who hears the powerful return of the opening theme in this new recording will ever want to hear any of these alternatives again.’ Daniel Jaffé

Prokofiev • Shostakovich

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 58; Music for Children, Op. 65 – March (arr. Piatigorsky) • Cello Concerto No. 1

Steven Isserlis (cello); Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi

Hyperion CDA 68037

Read the rest of this review in the May 2015 issue of BBC Music Magazine

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Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Daniel Jaffé has been associated with BBC Music Magazine since 2004 when he was the reviews editor, working in that post until he went freelance in 2011. Previously he was on the editorial teams of Classic CD and Gramophone. A specialist in both Russian and 20th-century British music, he has also written articles and programme notes for various orchestras and festivals both in the UK and abroad, published two books – Sergey Prokofiev (Phaidon), and a Historical Dictionary of Russian Music (Scarecrow Press) – and contributed extensively to the Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia (CUP).