Steven Isserlis

Gerstein wears a navy suit jacket and smiles at the camera. He has a short beard and brown eyes. Bell and Isserlis both wear black shirts. Bell smiles at the camera, tossing his shaggy, brown hair back. Isserlis looks left of camera and doesn't smile. He has long, curly gray hair.

Bell, Gerstein, and Isserlis at Tanglewood

In a Boston Symphony concert led by Alan Gilbert, violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Kirill Gerstein, and cellist Steven Isserlis are the soloists in Beethoven's Triple Concerto, part of a program that also includes the same composer’s buoyant Symphony No. 4.

The Parable of the Ten Virgins, by Phoebe Anna Traquair, at Mansfield Traquair Church, Edinburgh

Episodes

William Walton Channels Bach in "The Wise Virgins"

On The Bach Hour, Yoav Talmi leads the Quebec Symphony Orchestra in the Walton's imaginative vision for a ballet based on Bach's music, and Thomas Quasthoff sings the heart-wrenching Cantata No. 56.

"Destruction of the Temples at Jerusalem"

The Bach Hour

The Tectonic Forces of Bach's Cantata 101

On The Bach Hour, destruction on a Biblical scale is the foundation of music that grapples with mysteries and uncertainties as relevant today as in the composer's time.

Episodes

Steven Isserlis on Bach

On the program:Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541 (trans. d'Albert) - Piers Lane, pianoGamba Sonata in D, BWV 1028 - Steven Isserlis, cello; Richard Egarr,…

CD of the Week

CD of the Week: Steven Isserlis: Haydn & Bach Cello Concertos

One of the world’s leading cellists pays tribute to the pioneers of the classical cello concerto with humor and grace.Steven Isserlis does it all: he is…