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J S Bach - Complete Cello Suites

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMC90197071

Barcode: 0794881848126

Format: CD + DVD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 7th January 2008

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cello Suites 1-6 (complete), BWV1007-1012

Artists

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cello Suites 1-6 (complete), BWV1007-1012

Artists

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

About

"In a promotional DVD accompanying this release, Jean-Guihen Queyras cites the abundance of excellent Bach Cello Suites cycles on the market as one reason he waited until 2007 to commit his interpretations to disc. Queyras needn't have worried, for his playing is never less than beautiful, eloquent, and thoroughly world-class. It fuses the most apparent characteristics distinguishing certain memorable editions: Schiff's shapely melodic parsing, Pergamenschikov's infectious feeling for the dance, Bylsma's period-performance innovations, and Tortelier's purity of tone.

Queyras possesses an all-encompassing, supple, and effortless technique equal to Truls Mørk's, yet he avoids the latter's arch and self-conscious tendencies. In fact, the array of colors and articulations Queyras obtains always bypass the instrument en route to the music.

The Sixth Suite is a good example. Because the work's notoriously high-lying tessitura poses no problems for Queyras, he can sustain the Sarabande with whispering deliberation or, by contrast, make the Gavottes lighter and more bracing than usual. The latter also applies to the E-flat suite's Gigue and the C major's zesty Bourées. In Queyras' hands, each Suite's opening Prelude amounts to a master class in how to intelligently scale dynamics and inflect a basic pulse with a sense of proportion and controlled freedom, such as in the D minor Prelude's insidious build. An ideal church acoustic and Cécile Lenoir's sensitive engineering make Queyras' Bach all the more recommendable." Jed Distler, Classics today.com 10/10

A soloist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain where he was profoundly influenced by working with Pierre Boulez, Jean-Guihen Queyras is distinguished by a musical eclecticism which is reflected in his discography.
His Arpeggione with the pianist Alexandre Tharaud (Editor's Choice in Gramophone, Chamber Music Choice in BBC Music Magazine and Strad Selection) came after the concertos of Haydn and Monn on period instruments with the Freiburger Barockorchester (Top CD in BBC Music Magazine) and the Dvorák concerto with the Prague Philharmonia under the direction of Jirí Belohlávek. His earlier recordings were devoted to Britten, Kurtág,Veress, Kodály, Ligeti, Boulez and Dutilleux. An enthusiastic chamber musician, he founded the Arcanto Quartet with Tabea Zimmermann,Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec.

Bonus DVD: a complete filmed performance of the Third Suite and a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of this set.

Queryras is playing on a Gioffredo Cappa cello, 1696.

2CDS + BONUS DVD