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Jan Vogler is an internationally-known cellist and Echo prize-winner. He is the General Director of the Dresden Musikfestspiele and founder and Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival. His career has featured him with renowned conductors like Lorin Maazel, Fabio Luisi and internationally acclaimed orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony. The Suites for Cello are among the most popular works by J.S. Bach and represent a challenge for every cellist. For the first time in his career Jan Vogler has performed the Suites for Solo Cello over two evenings at the MDR Music Summer in 2012. After his brilliant performances he decided to record all 6 Cello Suites. | 
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| |  | Pieter Wispelwey 392: 50th Anniversary Recording2+1CD+DVD
Bach, J S: | Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012 |
Celebrating his 50th birthday, this recording of Bach’s Complete Cello Suites is Pieter Wispelwey’s third recording of the repertoire, but probably his most controversial! Based on extensive research by Laurence Dreyfus and John Butt (from the Dunedin Consort), Pieter tuned his strings down to a pitch of 392 for this recording, and the resulting sound is a very rich, sonorous experience. His cello also has gut strings for this recording and is played with a short bow. The suites are set out on disc in a chronological order, so you can listen for yourself to see if you can hear the difference in pitch and whether you prefer this recording over his others! Beautifully packaged in a slim box set, the recording contains a double disc of the Bach Suites and also a bonus DVD where Pieter talks about the recording. Priced as a mid price double, this recording will be a must have for all fans of Bach. “Of my three dozen discs, and innumnerable performance I've heard live of Bach's Cello Suites, none is as challenging as this...[Wispelwey] adopts the pitch used at Cothen where Bach wrote the Suites...The effect, beautifully recorded here, is very striking; Wispelwey describes it as 'relaxed', 'rustic' and 'raw'...Love it or hate it, this is a ground-breaking 'must-buy' for every cellist and Bach-lover.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012 **** “this is a must-have set. And for so many reasons!” Early Music Review “[the DVD is] an insightful bonus. The Dutch cellist is charming and articulate, and his views on the works are well supported...[the tuning] facilitates many stylistic aspects of his performance but inevitably results in a softer-edged, mellow tone - more viol-like - than normally associated with recordings of these works. He plays with deep affection and understanding. He experiments with Bach's musical rhetoric: some will find it over-phrased.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 “These are by far the gruffest accounts of Bach’s iconic works for solo cello on disc...The sound is disconcerting — at times in the slow sarabandes, Wispelwey might be playing a transcription for double bass ... A must-hear for ultra-authentic Bachians” Sunday Telegraph, 7th October 2012 “The playing is exquisite, and the combination of a warm, close-up recording and Wispelwey’s’s decision to tune his baroque cello to a lower pitch (A=392) gives the suites an appealing, earthy gruffness...This is the best "making-of" DVD I’ve seen – scholarly, entertaining and visually appealing.” The Arts Desk, 19th January 2013 “these are really extraordinary [performances]. Wispelwey uses a Baroque cello with the strings tuned down a whole tone. It gives a deep grainy sound, but counteracting that is the fabulous springy liveliness of the playing...Like a master rhetorician, he fills Bach’s even procession of notes with meaningful pauses, emphatic emphases, pleading diminuendos, changes of tone.” The Telegraph, 12th October 2012 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) Experience, virtuosity and individuality are all required when tackling J.S. Bach’s popular cello suites; Richard Tunnicliffe brings a lifetime of insight to his debut solo recording. Richard has made a special study of Bach's cello suites and his performances of all six have been acclaimed in Europe and Australia as well as at numerous venues in Great Britain, including Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room in London. Richard’s recording of the complete cello concerti by John Garth with the Avison Ensemble was chosen as ‘Critic’s Choice’ by Gramophone, ‘Concerto Recording of the Month’ by The Strad and twice as ‘CD of the Week’ by Classic FM. Richard Tunnicliffe’s broad experience and versatility mark him out amongst the best of today's impressive array of instrumentalists. Richard has enjoyed a long and varied career at the forefront of Britain’s thriving period instrument movement and is a member of the renowned viol consort Fretwork and principal cello with the Avison Ensemble. Richard has played with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Boston Symphony, Frankfurt Radio S.O., City of Birmingham S.O., English National Opera, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, The Gabrieli Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. “Tunnicliffe never loses sight of these dialogues and you hear a different one each time you visit it. In fact, this is one of the beauties of the disc...the warmth of Tunnicliffe's tone and self-evident, painstaking thought behind every phrase can bring you closer to this beautiful music. In fact, this intellectual connection with the music is the strongest selling-point of Tunnicliffe's recording...He also brings to it the soaring joy it needs.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 “It is the thoughtfulness and absence of overbearing rhetorical posturing that makes Tunnicliffe's clear-sighted and unexaggerated approach seem totally convincing...[Suite No. 6] is a fitting culmination to a vivid, sometimes reflective but above all personally involving cycle in which the unfettered joy of musical rediscovery is given free rein...His music notes, by the way, are quite as fascinating and informative as the performances themselves.” International Record Review, June 2012 “a splendid performance from Richard Tunnicliffe that is certainly worthy of very close scrutiny indeed. Robust, rounded, resonant, rich and quietly perceptive, it captivates from the first bars...his unassuming yet undeniable insight into this great music...make[s] this a recording to get to know and enjoy alongside the established milestone CDs.” MusicWeb International, Asugust 2012 “clear-sighted, intelligently informed yet emotionally engaged performances. His virtuosity in the faster movements is easy, though not casual, his degree of interpretative intervention gauged beautifully so that grandeur does not become grandiosity and the momentous sarabandes are reflective, not self-indulgent.” Sunday Times, 25th March 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gérard Caussé, one of the world’s great viola players, takes on the epic musical challenge of the six suites that Bach composed for cello. Joining Caussé is another distinguished French artist, the actor Laurent Terzieff, who died in 2010. Between each suite, Terzieff reads poems by the poet Rainer-Maria Rilke, Bohemian-born, but deeply influenced by French culture. The distinguished French viola player Gérard Caussé has made a number of appearances in the Virgin Classics catalogue, notably as a colleague to Renaud and Gautier Capuçon in music by Brahms and Schubert. Here, he is the sole musician, playing Bach’s Six Cello Suites, works of inexhaustible fascination and depth, in a version for viola. “Playing them on the viola is an almost unprecedented adventure,” he says. “My instrument, a 1560 Gaspard Da Salo, my musical companion for life, is resonating in these Bach suites for the first time.” Caussé is, however, joined by another performer on this 2-CD set. He is the French actor and director, Laurent Terzieff, reading poems (in French) by Rainer-Maria Rilke, the Bohemian-Austrian poet (1875 –1926), who spent a highly formative period in Paris, especially notable for his contact with the sculptor Auguste Rodin. “This is not, of course, a period performance. Causse freely indulges in rubato, treads warily through the chordal passages and is sparing with ornamentation. The rubato is most successful in the expansive preludes and less so in the smaller-scale movements styled as dances.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 “Causse's approach is strangely old-fashioned. The Preludes are aptly rhapsodic: a glorious acoustic gathers up the harmony and counterpoint hidden within Bach's single line...Alluring for fluent French-speakers; less so for the rest of the world.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 *** “In all, then, these are warmly textured, rhythmically somewhat devitalised accounts. They are lovely as examples of viola playing but they don’t always reach to the heart of the music” MusicWeb International, July 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Over the years, the Bach Suites have become a monument of the cello repertoire, to which all cellists return regularly. Some of the greatest did not record these works until they reached their years of maturity (Casals was over 60, Rostropovich was 63), while others have not hesitated to present several versions (Yo-Yo Ma, 1990, 1998; Janos Starker, 1957, 1963, 1983). Ophélie Gaillard’s first recording of the Suites, released on Ambrosie in 2000, was highly acclaimed internationally by the critics and her performance earned her a French Classical Music Award (Victoire) as a "Revelation" in the Solo Instrumentalist category. Ten years later, at the request of Nicolas Bartholomée, artistic director of Aparte and indeed Ambroisie, she agreed to record a new version on a cello made in 1737 by Matteo Goffriller, a contemporary of J. S. Bach. Ophélie Gaillard had already given us a reference performance of these pieces. Now we discover a prodigiously renewed vision of this masterpiece. “Her playing is consistently elegant and assured and...sounds quite modern. We are not so much transported back in time as brought up to date...Technically assured, she is nevertheless physically challenged by these works, to judge from the many instances of audible breathing on the discs. Yet the focus and momentum she sustains in the Fifth and Sixth Suites in particular is undeniably impressive.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach, J S: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012Recorded live at the concerts of the 10th Prague Spring International Music Festival at the Rudolfinum, May 26– 27, 1955
Today, Bach’s suites form part of the repertoire of every distinguished cellist, and many of them have recorded the complete cycle. Yet when sixty years ago the twenty-four-year-old Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007) first performed all the suites in public, it was a trailblazing act, linking up to the previous endeavour of Pablo Casals. When this live recording was made in 1955 at the Prague Spring festival, Rostropovich was 28 years of age. He astounded the audience with his youthful verve and surprising artistic maturity. At the festival Rostropovich met his lifelong love, Galina Vishnevskaya, whom upon returning to Moscow he married after several days of acquaintance. When in 1991 the cellist made a complete recording of the Bach suites in France, he was 64. Hence, all the more precious is this live recording from the Czech Radio archives, which waited more than half a century for its release. As a lover and connoisseur of wine, Rostropovich would certainly agree that some wines – and some recordings too – acquire a richer taste and a higher value over time. A sensational, newly discovered 1955 Rostropovich recording of the Bach suites. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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2CD plus bonus DVD (a complete filmed performance of the Third Suite and a behind-the-scenes documentary on
the making of this set) “Queyras is master of his instrument. Intonation is well-nigh impeccable, including meeting Bach's demands of a five-string cello on a normal four-strong instrument… He's an exciting player. He sustains harmonic bass-notes though, most notably in the first Prelude where the superb acoustic of a church in Sulzberg in southern Germany allows the harmony to build up dramatically.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 ***** “In a crowded field, Queyras has absorbing and original things to say about these great works and his set can be very warmly recommended.” International Record Review “A recording of all six of Bach's suites by the choice young cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras is in the offing from the Harmonia Mundi label, so it was particularly opportune to have a foretaste of his approach in this lunchtime recital… Queyras's playing has a magnetic quality and a spectrum of nuances that, in these solo circumstances, generated interpretations of great subtlety, sensibility and radiance… There was perhaps no more perfect antidote to the Bank Holiday tumult of Oxford Street than Queyras's Bach suite. …There was no hint of ostentation or overstatement in any of this, but only an affecting naturalness from a musician who has clearly thought deeply about the music and the emotional range it conveys.” The Times | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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