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The greatest cellist you never heard
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norman lebrecht
January 15, 2023
Steven Isserlis pays tribute to Daniil Shafran, who was born 100 years ago this week but was confined to the Soviet zone of Europe.
DANIIL SHAFRAN – born 13th January 1923
A personal memoir on his centenary:
by Steven Isserlis
I first became aware of the genius of Daniil Shafran when I was about 12 years old.
My teacher, Jane Cowan, gave a talk about great cellists; towards the end of the evening, she played an excerpt from (I believe) Shafran’s recording of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata with Lydia Pecherskaya. I was immediately ‘hooked’ – what a sound!
What elegance!
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What charm – and what mastery! Shafran became my hero, and I talked of little else (I was an obsessive). But the trouble was that he never appeared in person in the West, and his recordings were almost all unavailable – only that recording of Schubert and Shostakovich with Pecherskaya and (a bit l
