Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih - A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888

Steven Isserlis has curated another typically imaginative recital, in which all the works date�in one guise or another�from an especially fruitful decade in the history of the cello.

Isserlis's lockdown project is a fascinating collection of interconnected solo cello pieces: Bach, the Russian master-cellist, and Isserlis himself are the links...but the Britten Suite is the meatiest item here: truly a meditation on death, as Isserlis calls it, and played with a technical and musical conviction worthy of its creators.

- The Sunday Times on CDA68373