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Bach Revealed: A Player’s Guide to the Solo Cello Suites
Best used as a companion guide, assisting your own research into what is structural and what is ornamental, Bach Revealed offers two-part playing editions for the first time. Consisting of musical reductions, the guides explicitly look at Bach’s complex harmonies, setting out their structure whilst conserving the originals' spirit and beauty.
These reductions reveal Bach's rich layers of musical texture, his counterpoint, chordal elaboration, and ornamentation of the melodic line. They provide the implied bass line, the essential melodic line, opportunities for ornamentation, and the essential rhythmic character of the dance movements. A great resource to assist professional cellists, students and teachers studying these great works. Volume one (Suites I and II) is available now, with two more volumes to follow in the future.
Bach Revealed: A Player’s Guide to the Solo Cello Suites by J.S. Bach
Volume one (Suites I and II) BWV 1007-1008
This edition consists of musical reductions, mostly in two voices, making explicit Bach’s complex harmonies by setting out their structure without losing the originals' spirit and beauty. The reductions explore Bach's rich layers of musical texture and reveal his counterpoint, chordal elaboration and ornamentation of the melodic line. They provide the implied bass line, the essential melodic line, opportunities for ornamentation and the essential rhythmic character of the dance movements.
Available Format: Sheet Music
Bach Revealed: A Player’s Guide to the Solo Cello Suites by J.S. Bach (Version for Viola)
Volume one (Suites I and II) BWV 1007-1008
Viola edition is equally useful for musicians who play the Cello Suites on other instruments including double bass, guitar, saxophone and marimba. It will interest Baroque specialists and modern instrument players alike, teachers and students wishing to deepen their understanding of Bach’s musical language.
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Bach's six cello suites for solo cello are among the most cherished works in musical literature. Little-known for some two hundred years after their composition, they have acquired an aura that enthrals audiences worldwide. Internationally renowned cellist Steven Isserlis goes deep into the history and the emotional journey of the suites, bringing to bear all his experience of performance to offer a rewarding companion for everyone, from the casual listener to the performing musician.
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Steven Isserliss award-winning discography spans his diverse interests in repertoire and his musicological enthusiasm, as well as demonstrating his supreme artistry and uniquely beautiful sound, and his first recording of the complete Bach cello suites is an indelibly important addition to the set. Steven writes that the Bach suites are works of such total perfection, such sublimity, that it is well-nigh impossible to feel ready for them.
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