Bach: The Cello Suites
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Performer: Steven IsserlisComposer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Catalan Traditional
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prelude (Suite #1 in G major)
- Allemande
- Courante
- Sarabande
- Menuet I - Menuet II
- Gigue
- Prelude (Suite # 2 in D minor)
- Allemande
- Courante
- Sarabande
- Menuet I - Menuet II
- Gigue
- Prelude (Suite # 3 in C major)
- Allemande
- Courante
- Sarabande
- Bouree I - Bouree II
- Gigue
- Prelude (Suite # 4 in E flat major)
- Allemande
- Courante
- Sarabande
- Bourree I - Bourree II
- Gigue
- Prelude (Suite # 5 in C minor)
- Allemande
- Courante
- Sarabande
- Gavotte I - Gavotte II
- Gigue
- Prelude (Suite # 6 in D major)
- Allemande
- Courante
- Sarabande
- Gavotte I - Gavotte II
- Gigue
- The Song of the Birds (Catalan folksong- arranged by Sally Beamish
- Prelude from Suite # 1 (from Anna Magdalena manuscript)
- Prelude from Suite # 1 (from the John Peter Kellner manuscript)
- Prelude from Suite # 1 (from the collection of JOhann Christoph
Free Music Notes for Bach: The Cello Suites
Free Music Review: Yes but . . .
Hit: 3 Stars
Yes, the playing is beautiful. Yes, the dances have a rhythmic spring. Yes, Isserlis understands the arc of the melody. But I am reminded of how a non-English conductor instructed an English orchestra on rehearsing a Mahler symphony: "Forget that you are gentlemen." Well, Isserlis does not forget that he is a gentleman. Granted Bach isn't Mahler, but there is room for a lot more gutsiness and passion than we get here. Emotionally these performances are on the cool and tepid side. Everything is very genteel, very proper. I want this music to grab me by the lapels, and these performances don't do that. Without being self-indulgent, many others do: Casals, Mork, Wispelwey I, Haimowitz, Ma I, Kirschbaum and Starker to name a few. If you want more committed performances with the same beauty and elegance as these, Fournier is your man.
Bach: The Cello Suites Poster
The Bach Cello Suites must have been recorded by virtually every great cellist past and present, beginning with Pablo Casals. This new recording by Steven Isserlis must rank among the best, technically and musically. His approach to the Suites is based on a careful analysis of the sources, a study of historical and recent research, and his own instinctive feeling. He explains all this in scholarly liner notes leavened with humor and personal comments. Isserlis describes the Suites as a succession of dances introduced by Preludes to set their mood and tonality. He feels, though, that Bach greatly transcended their dance character, especially in the Sarabandes which, through their depth and expressiveness, form the core of the Suites. Moreover, contemporary scholarship and the Suites' cumulative structural complexity and emotional intensity lead him to believe that, like the violin Sonatas and Partitas, they are connected to specific Church festivals celebrating certain aspects of the Passion story. He especially points to the tragic, oppressive character of No. 5 (the Crucifixion) and the triumphant radiance of No. 6 (the Resurrection), conceived for a five-stringed instrument.The remarkable thing is that Isserlis brings all this out in his playing. His tone, with sparing vibrato, is warm and austere, dark in the two sorrowful minor-mode Suites, bright in the others. His phrasing is as natural as speech; with perfectly controlled rhythm, the dances really dance. Voices stand out like threads in a tapestry. Bach's own manuscript having been lost, Isserlis adds three versions of the first Prelude taken from the earliest copies, and honors Casals with "The Song of the Birds," a Catalan folksong closely associated with him. Lovers of Bach and great cello playing must not miss this recording. --Edith Eisler
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