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Bach - Six Suites for Solo Cello | Nimbus NI5834

Bach - Six Suites for Solo Cello

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI5834

Barcode: 0710357583421

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 3rd November 2008

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About

Wolfgang Boettcher was born in Berlin in 1935 and studied at the Musikhochschule under Boris Blacher and Ernst Pepping. His cello studies  under Richard Klemm were followed by courses with Maurice Gendron and Enrico Mainaridi. In 1971 he returned to the Berlin Musikhochschule to teach and in 1976 became the Professor for Violoncello, succeeding Richard Klemm. Wolfgang Boettcher’s students include many of today’s leading soloists, chamber musicians and orchestral players. Indeed, nearly half the current Berlin Philharmonic cello section studied with him.

Wolfgang Boettcher became principal cellist in Karajan's Berlin  Philharmonic at the age of 22. He left in 1976 to teach and pursue a solo career. He was a founding member of the many chamber ensembles drawn from the orchestra including the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philharmonic Soloists Berlin and the Brandis Quartett, founded in January 1976 by the orchestra’s Concertmaster Thomas Brandis.

The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are  acclaimed as some of the greatest works ever written for solo cello. They were most likely composed during the period 1717–1723, when Bach served as a Kapellmeister in Cöthen. The suites contain a great variety of technical devices, a wide range of emotional content, and some of Bach's most compelling voice interactions and conversations. It is their intimacy, however, that has made the suites amongst Bach's most popular works today, resulting in their different recorded interpretations being fiercely defended by their respective advocates.

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