Jean-Guihen Queyras - Bach: Cello Suites [2 CDs + DVD]
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Artist: Jean-Guihen QueyrasBrand: Bach
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Suite No. 1 in G major. 1. Pr?lude
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Suite No. 1 in G major. 2. Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Suite No. 1 in G major. 3. Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Suite No. 1 in G major. 4. Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Suite No. 1 in G major. 5. Menuets 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Suite No. 1 in G major. 6. Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Suite No. 2 in D minor. 1. Pr?lude
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Suite No. 2 in D minor. 2. Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Suite No. 2 in D minor. 3. Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Suite No. 2 in D minor. 4. Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Suite No. 2 in D minor. 5. Menuets 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Suite No. 2 in D minor. 6. Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Suite No. 3 in C major. 1. Pr?lude
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Suite No. 3 in C major. 2. Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Suite No. 3 in C major. 3. Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Suite No. 3 in C major. 4. Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Suite No. 3 in C major. 5. Bourr?es 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Suite No. 3 in C major. 6. Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Suite No. 4 in E flat major. 1. Pr?lude
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Suite No. 4 in E flat major. 2. Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Suite No. 4 in E flat major. 3. Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Suite No. 4 in E flat major. 4. Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Suite No. 4 in E flat major. 5. Bourr?es 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Suite No. 4 in E flat major. 6. Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Suite No. 5 in C minor. 1. Pr?lude
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Suite No. 5 in C minor. 2. Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Suite No. 5 in C minor. 3. Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Suite No. 5 in C minor. 4. Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Suite No. 5 in C minor. 5. Gavottes 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Suite No. 5 in C minor. 6. Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Suite No. 6 in D major. 1. Pr?lude
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Suite No. 6 in D major. 2. Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Suite No. 6 in D major. 3. Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Suite No. 6 in D major. 4. Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Suite No. 6 in D major. 5. Gavottes 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Suite No. 6 in D major. 6. Gigue
Music reviews of Bach: Cello Suites [2 CDs + DVD]
Music Review: One Could Spend a Lifetime ...
Rating: 5 Stars
... listening to the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, and if you're a cellist you'll very likely spend much of your lifetime playing them. At one time or another, I've heard most of the better-known recordings of them - Casals, Fournier, Rostropovitch, Ma, and other 'modern' cellists; Bylsma, Wispelwey, Isserlis among the baroque cellists. For the moment, I have two favorite performances and I refuse to choose between them: the recording by Ophelie Gaillard which I reviewed a few weeks ago and this recording by Jean-Guihen Queyras. Both performances are are "historically informed' interpretations, at least in bowing technique and rhythmic sensibilities..
Jean-Guihen Queyras has such magnificent technique that one is tempted to place a crown of hyperbole on his brow and declare him the 'greatest living cellist.' He's astonishingly polished on both modern and baroque cello; he brings the conservatory mastery of the former to the latter, and the HIP musicality of the latter to the former. His recordings include not only the Bach suites but also the two Haydn concertos, the Schubert 'Arpeggione' Sonata for Cello and Piano along with works by Berb and Webern, and the Dvorak Concerto and the Dumka Trios. Every one of these performances is at or near the apex of brilliance.
It's Queyras's virtuosity - his flawless tuning, his effortless fingering, his magnificent control of timbre - that make these cello suites vivid. Queyras never over-interprets; in any repertoire, he liberates the notes of music to sing their own song. The cello he plays here has an exceptionally balanced and mellow timbre, and the recording quality is superb. The 'competition' these days is down to two: Queyras and Ophelie Gaillard, whose interpretation of the suites is more gutsy and darker but almost equally virtuosic. I have one clear preference, for Gaillard's complex, compelling performance of Suite #6 on her five-string cello piccolo with gut strings. Otherwise, I'm totally, thoroughly, irreversibly convinced by whichever of the two I'm hearing at the moment.
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