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Bach - Cello Suites
from: EMI Classics

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724356287822
Label: EMI Classics
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI Classics
Release Date: August 02, 2004
Studio: EMI Classics
Sales Rank: 3127

Disc 1:
  1. I. Prelude
  2. II. Allemande
  3. III. Courante
  4. IV. Sarabande
  5. V. Menuet I
  6. VI. Menuet II
  7. VII. Gigue
  8. I. Praeludium
  9. II. Allemande
  10. III. Courante
  11. IV. Sarabande
  12. V. Bourree I
  13. VI. Bourree II
  14. VII. Gigue
  15. I. Prelude
  16. II. Allemande
  17. III. Courante
  18. IV. Sarabande
  19. V. Gavotte I
  20. VI. Gavotte II
  21. VII. Gigue
Disc 2:
  1. I. Prelude
  2. II. Allemande
  3. III. Courante
  4. IV. Sarabande
  5. V. Menuet I
  6. VI. Menuet II
  7. VII. Gigue
  8. I. Prelude
  9. II. Allemande
  10. III. Courante
  11. IV. Sarabande
  12. V. Bourree I
  13. VI. Bourree II
  14. VII. Gigue
  15. I. Prelude
  16. II. Allemande
  17. III. Courante
  18. IV. Sarabande
  19. V. Gavotte I
  20. VI. Gavotte II
  21. VII. Gigue
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best that I've heard!
I currently own recordings of the Bach cello suites by Rostropovich, Casals, Yo-Yo Ma and Fournier and have heard many others. Tortelier's recording is my firm favourite. The pace is just right; slow enough to express feeling, but fast enough to realise the no doubt intended flow to the pieces. Tortelier is completely at one with the Bach Cello Suites in these recordings, and plays them beautifully. Highly recommended.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great recordings from the last Century

These recordings from 1983 were originally available as two separate CDs, which is how I first came to hear them. They are now available on the EMI Classics label as `Great Recordings of the Century'.

These works, like much of Bach's music, were long neglected during the Romantic and Modern periods as being too dry, academic and old-fashioned. They are now sitting happily at the centre of Bach's many compositions for solo instruments and are considered to be some of the finest works ever written for the solo cello.

The return to popularity, if in fact they were ever really popular in Bach's time, must be attributed to Pablo Casals (1876-1973) who picked up the manuscripts of this work and brought the music ... Read More:


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - PROFOUNDLY HUMAN(IST) PERFORMANCES
It's surprising how very different interpretations of these amazing solo works can each convince you that, yes, that's the way they should go. Certainly, with Bach's Cello Suites as with Shakespeare's Cleopatra, custom cannot stale their infinite variety. Casals, their rediscoverer, brought his inimitable mix of style and passion to them. Rostropovich seemed to chisel them out of the rock like some marmoreal Michelangelo statue. For some cellists, they are towering and grandiloquent. For others, they are intimate and personal. Some emphasise the joy of the dance movements, others the intensity of the sarabandes, others still apply the strictest theories of authentic period performance to them.

Anyone of a certain age will recall ... Read More:


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Unsurpassed Masterclass in Technique
As an ex professional 'cellist myself I'm more than familiar with these suites by Bach. Their content is detailed in other reviews - here I wish to comment just on Tortelier's interpretation.

One of the greatest things about the suites is that they are so flexible to player's interpretation and Tortelier makes this abundantly clear with the opening bars of the prelude to the first suite. His technique is astounding, precise, lyrical and beautiful. The music literally dances in novel and previously unimagined ways that blows me away every time I hear it.

Yo Yo Ma's extremely accomplished suites are lush and beautiful but sound flat, dull and unimaginative by comparison. Rostropovich's suites sound ham fisted, bullying the ... Read More:


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The cello is tortuous and torturous beauty
The Cello is a rare instrument that can live on its own with no great difficulty at all, even if we do not know it very well nor very much. But then a completely different world appears. We are not used to that instrument standing alone. We discover its deep reverberation, and its important mobility in tone and color. Those suites are very standardized. Each one has six pieces, all the same except the fifth piece in the fourth, fifth and sixth suites where it is respectively a bourrée, and two gavottes. We discover this strange bourrée that introduces a ternary tempo into this basically binary music, and this bourrée comes from the village, the farmers, or the peasants who used to dance around in the village square around the maypole or any other ... Read More:
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