Steven Isserlis & Camerata Bern ID:
Orchester
Living Legends
Friday, 07. August 2026
7:30 p.m., Church Saanen
He ranks among the most charismatic cellists of our time. As an Artistic Partner of the Camerata Bern, Steven Isserlis has been leading the ensemble from his cello for nearly two decades. Raised in a world steeped in music, Steven Isserlis brings the most delightful anecdotes to life in his vivid and engaging books. One favourite involves his grandfather, the pianist Julius Isserlis, who arrived in Vienna from Russia with Steven’s father in the early 1920s – only to be turned away by a 102-year-old landlady, just when he thought he had finally found a place to live. Her reason? Her aunt had once taken in a musician who turned out to be far too loud. His name: Ludwig van Beethoven!
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Steven Isserlis, Cello
Camerata Bern, Ensemble
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) | |
| Prelude and Fugue, H 40 / Op. 137 (1817) (orig. for string quartet – version for string orchestra) | 6' |
| Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) | |
| Cello Concerto in A Major No. 2, G. 475, “The Frog” (ca. 1760) | 14' |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) | |
| Cello Concerto in A Major | 22' |
| Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) | |
| Sarabande for String Orchestra, Op. 93 No. 1 (1892) | 7' |
| Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) | |
| String Quartet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87 | 30' |
| 80' | |
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