© ciassic cp [Ht The top five w releases er Sneed Ree eck a disc track to whet your appetite Paty Coal POO ay id CU Paul Riley i Dp. DVORAK Serenade for Strings ee s Con Tee BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 5 end i ez Oey Reviews ratings Cea) erty mere i te 1 toe eee et nee pean Ce Ca Disc of the Month FING Nannon m AGA Ver eo So O85 Joseph Haydn 1732-1809} the wes manmered exterior ‘epteo xoeason | i Haydn's cello concertos have been recor- ded several times by many leading cellists — but this version's no mere pyrotechnic vehicle, as Fiona Hook explains f you only buy one disc this year, make sure is this one, Is initial appeal is purely visceral. You can’t immediately work out why you cant stop listening to i, you only know that this is so. Its hypnotic, On the fifth hearing a litle reason returns, Is not just Isselis’s wonderful sound, though this shoule| not he underrated. I's not an amazing technical grasp that skitters, mouselike, through pianissimo upward scales, and reels off unobtrusively perfect surefootedness of an Irish dancer, replacing the ugly struggle some soloists have with the doublestopping in the D majors final Rondo with the with the unemphatic strenuous grace of a hurdler clears his jumps. I's not even the understated patrician elegance with which he ‘moulds his lines, their classical restraint a poignant contrast to the sorrow he finds within them, It's more that his view of the major concerto in particular is completely original. In common with many others, Lynn Harrell in his fine recording treats it as a virtuoso display piece. To Issenis i's an expression of personal pain, nobly bome but stil ‘overwhelming, His lines are shaped with a lieder singer's tender care, each note carefully articulated as if he were singing words that only he could hear, the orchestra's controlled interjections only a mon distraction from his inner grief The witty Sinfonia Concertant different kind of teat, dessert alter the cellis’s food for the soul Fiona Hook1782-1808 Haydn's foots “An expression of pain nobly borne but still overwhelming” RG COVER DISC @ TRACK 1 HAYDN Colle Concerts in B major fin! movernent, “aero am ‘Wisi unde woe te mln fem, A (01) played y he soit ten chs, rated nee ects, L020 he cote dregs te rh pastgevor (2 ad onners tom te cos (7, ble etng inta th nr (20 Th et dl secon (5) Aly d- stopeg— eg 0 be, § 7. SIR EDWARD HEATH ay (228). Thea part becomes progressively harder, reaching (2:38, 8 passage of flonclsh sting crossing. At 412 the oboes recap A andthe coll returns to D Io forthe orchestra's al bars July 1888 Classic cD 18