Prelude 0:00 Allemande 2:54 Courante 7:48 Sarabande 10:23 Menuetts 13:19 Gigue 16:56 Been listening to many renditions of this suite, and this is my favourite
The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. They are some of the most frequently performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello. Bach most likely composed them during the period 1717-23, when he served as Kapellmeister in Köthen. The title given on the cover of the Anna Magdalena Bach manuscript was Suites à Violoncello Solo senza Basso (Suites for cello solo without bass).
These suites for unaccompanied cello are remarkable in that they achieve the effect of implied three- to four-voice contrapuntal and polyphonic music in a single musical line. [1] As usual in a Baroque musical suite, after the prelude which begins each suite, all the other movements are based around baroque dance types;[2] the cello suites are structured in six movements each: prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées or two gavottes, and a final gigue.[3] The Bach cello suites are considered to be among the most profound of all classical music works.[4][5][6] Wilfrid Mellers described them in 1980 as "Monophonic music wherein a man has created a dance of God."[
This work is one of the greatest exponents of Bach's genius, only the great executors can invest themselves with his personality for a correct interpretation, and thus transmit us the feeling of the musician, it is necessary to move to an era, a style, and his soul full of religiosity. without doubt one of the greatest musicians in the history of man.
this is what I'm telling students.. with a certain dispassionate neutrality, a technique of weights and holding to the tempo you are fully expressive in this period - no need to romanticize (except in your heart & mind)
I have heard so many versions of suite #1. This is my favorite. I hope that Eva Lymenstull will perform and record all six under similar settings. This is going to be the new classic.
I thought you were sitting on thin air for a moment! This was a nice interpretation in Baroque style. I was not expecting you to repeat the sections in the Minuet I after you had played the Minuet II.
Exquisite playing. I especially like your judicious placement of the mordents and trills in the various movements: Extremely well done. Have you made any recordings yet?
je trouve son jeu trop féminin, trop lisse, trop mélodieux; toujours est-il qu'elle sait tirer de son instrument un son délicieux, et qu'elle est, en tout cas, merveilleusement agréable à écouter; il faut accepter ce qui est beau quand ça se présente, sans s'attarder sur des réserves de forme
Par ailleurs , au sens acoustique ,pourquoi ce violoncelle manque-t-il autant de volume ? est du à 'instrument ? est-ce-du à l'archet baroque , ou encore à l'étouffement du son par les jambes de l'artiste , ou à la salle d'enregistrement ?
