Artists
- Steven Isserliscello
- Connie Shihpiano
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Steven Isserlis
Image credit: © Jean-Baptiste Millot
- Date
- Sat 29 Nov 2025, 7.30pm
- Tickets
- Archived Event
- Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Jan Stiastnyc.1764-c.1830
- Theme and Variations Op. 11 No. 2
- Antonín Dvořák1841-1904
- 4 Romantic Pieces Op. 75(arranged by Steven Isserlis)
- Ignaz Moscheles1794-1870
- Cello Sonata in E Op. 121
Interval
- Josef Suk1874-1935
- Ballade in D minor Op. 3 No. 1
- Serenade in A Op. 3 No. 2
- Leoš Janáček1854-1928
- Pohádka
- Bohuslav Martinů1890-1959
- Cello Sonata No. 1
Encore
- Bedřich Smetana1824-1884
- Má vlast:
- II. Vltava
Overview
Bohemia and Moravia, historic regions of the Czech Republic, cultivated a rich tradition of cello playing. Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih trace its development from the music of cellist-composer Jan Stiastny (c.1764 - c.1830), ‘the Beethoven of the violoncello’, to striking works by Janáček and Martinů, the latter written in exile following the Nazi annexation of its composer’s homeland.