Bach, J S: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012 (solo, unaccompanied)

"…it's the playing that makes these three sonatas really come alive. Anne Gastinel is one of the finest French cellists around, and she's a superb chamber music player, as you'll know if you've heard her Naïve recording of Rachmaninov and Strauss Sonatas with Pierre-Laurent Aimard." Andrew Mcgregor, BBC Radio 3, on Anne Gastinel’s recording Beethoven Cello Sonatas (V4297)

"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, live review

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