Bach: Cello Suites
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Brand: BachComposer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Pierre Fournier
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Menuet 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Menuet 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Gavotte 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: Gigue
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Allemande
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Courante
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Sarabande
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Gavotte 1 & 2
- Suite for solo cello No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Gigue
Music reviews of Bach: Cello Suites
Music Review: This is Still the Favorite of Many Bach Lovers...
Rating: 3 Stars
... as one can quickly discover by looking at the reviews of this bargain re-release as well as other, older editions. Wondering why, I dug out my old Archive LPs of Pierre Fournier to listen to him once again after being recently "blown away' by the performances of the same six suites by Jean-Guihen Queyras and Ophelie Gaillard. I was eager to hear what people had heard in Fournier's performance that set it apart from performances by other 20th C cellists.
Okay... My Swedish grandmother had a massive oak dining table with claw feet, which could seat twelve full-sized Swedish uncles and great-uncles comfortably. I used to crawl under that table as a boy. It was the Platonic ideal for me of everything sturdy and imperturbable. Fournier's interpretation of Bach is like that: resonant, robust, grand, and muscular. His tone never sags. His tuning is as dependable as the return of wild geese in the spring. His bowing is reassuringly confident. His interpretation is thoughtfully grave throughout. But...
... his tempi are unbearably slow, especially in the double bourees and courants. His phrasing is stiff, arbitrary, and bluffly unaware of the polyrhythmic layers of 'counting', with the effect that he seems to play all the notes but none of the note-groupings. It's like listening to dance music but having no idea of the steps. I have a nagging sense of 'not knowing where we are' in the unfolding of these sublimated dance structures, of hearing the notes but not the 'composition' of them.
... his affect is solemn and resigned throughout, like the musical thoughts of a man focused on sorrow. Bach had other moods as a man, and I think he had other moods in mind for this music: humor, light-heartedness, graciousness, exuberance. I think old Bach would have considered Fournier a very dull companion.
But that's just one listener's frankly subjective opinion, friends. You needn't heap scornful comments on me, or unhelpful votes, if you disagree. "Each bird finds its own nest beautiful," as my Swedish grandmother would have said if she'd been Italian: A ogni uccello suo nido é bello.
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Release Date: 9-OCT-2007
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