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JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Pablo Casals

$30.95 (Compact disc / Emi )

J.S. Bach: Complete cello suites

Recorded 1936-39, mono

At the age of 13, Pablo Casals found a copy of Bach's Suites, of whose existence he knew nothing, in a second-hand music shop in Barcelona, where he was studying th... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set (1927-1939)
Pablo Casals

$19.95$13.95 (Compact disc / Naxos Historical )

Readings Staff Recommend - Building a Classical Library

A double album from Naxos Historical, featuring the legendary cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973). He developed a highly personal florid style of playing, dismissed by... More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Peter Wispelwey

$29.95 (Compact disc / Channel )

"These new performances are carefully prepared, beautifully executed and most eloquently expressed. The instruments, too, sound well...Wispelwey is an imaginative player with a highly developed sense of fantasy...[his] v... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Pierre Fournier

$32.95 (Compact disc / Archiv Produktion )

Basle Cathedral was packed on two Sunday evenings in the autumn of 1962 to hear Fournier play the complete set of Bach Suites. “One man and four stirings mesmerizing more than 2000 people … an indescribable palette of co... More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 3 CD Set
Matt Haimovitz

$59.95 (Compact disc / Oxingale Records )

J. S. Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Solo, complete on three compact discs, is the latest recording from this internationally acclaimed artist. The set is accompanied by a 24-page booklet featuring musical commentary on each s... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Steven Isserlis

$64.95$59.95 (Compact disc / Hyperion Records )

Hyperion’s record of the month for May is a major milestone for a performer at the zenith of his career—described recently in The Independent as ‘the stuff of legend’. Steven Isserlis’s award-winning discography spans hi... More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Mitislav Rostropovich

$24.95$14.95 (Compact disc / Emi Classics )

Penguin Guide Rosette Winner.

The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music, now in its thirtieth edition, remains the cornerstone guide for the discriminating record collector.

The Penguin Guide 3 star rating is given t... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Mstislav Rostropovich

$54.95 (Compact disc / Emi Classics )

Box set edition with booklet.

Penguin Guide Rosette Winner.

The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music, now in its thirtieth edition, remains the cornerstone guide for the discriminating record collector.

The Penguin ... More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites: Performed on Double Bass
Edgar Meyer

$20.95 (Compact disc / Sony Classical )

Track listing:

  1. Suite No. 2 in D Minor
  2. Suite No. 1 in G Major
  3. Suite No. 5 in C Minor

Cellists had to relinquish their exclusive ownership of Bach's cello suites long ago. Violists and guitarists have played them; Leopol... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Robert Cohen

$24.95 (Compact disc / Regis Records )

Regis Recording. Originally released on now defunct label Collins Classics.

This is serious playing,which makes a real attempt to get to the heart of the music without aid of artifice...Cohen's technique enables him to p... More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Sigiswald Kuijken

$66.95 (Compact disc / Accent Records )

Bach’s cello suites played on the instrument for which they were conceived: the shoulder cello (violoncello da spalla). This recording casts a completely new light on these pieces and their origin.

“…Sigiswald Kuijken…... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Paul Tortelier

$19.95 (Compact disc / Classics For Pleasur )

“Tortelier echoed Casals, saying 'First comes Bach - then all the others'. His edition is festooned with symbols coolly analysing every bow-stroke, but their synthesis in his playing is passionate and defies changing fas... More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, DVD
Maisky Mischa

$44.95 (Digital video disc / Deutsche Grammophon )

Cello virtuoso Mischa Maisky plays Bach's six suites for violoncello solo. Palladio's Villa Caldogno is the setting for one of the world's top cellists as he plays the six pieces that are the cornerstone of any cellists'... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Truls Mork

$29.95 (Compact disc / Virgin Classics )

Complete Cello Suites

Bach’s monumental Cello Suites are regarded as the most significant works of a cellist’s career. In his modesty and thorough musicianship, Truls Mørk now feels he has reached a time when he can comm... More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Heinrich Schiff

$14.95 (Compact disc / Emi Classics )

This Double Fforte EMI Classics reissue presents the six Bach solo cello suites on 2 CDs and sells at mid-price. The music was recorded in 1984 by the cellist Heinrich Schiff. The suites are considered among the most pro... More »

JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, 2 CD Set
Ralph Kirshbaum

$14.95 (Compact disc / Virgin Records )

J. S. Bach - Suites for Cello More »


JS Bach: Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012, Inspired By Bach, 2 CD Set
Yo Yo Ma

$39.95 (Compact disc / Sony Classical )

In the fifteen years between his first recording for CBS Masterworks and INSPIRED BY BACH, Yo-Yo Ma expanded and refined his conception of the Bach suites for solo cello. The performances are introspective, almost as if ... More »

JS Bach: Chamber Music, 14 CD Set
Various

$99.95 (Compact disc / Brilliant Classics )

Sonate e Partite per Violino Solo I johann sebastian bach chamber music Sonate e Partite per Violino Solo I SONATE No. 1 in G minor/g Moll BWV1001 More »

  1. Adagio 4:52
  2. Fuga (allegro) 5:34
  3. Siciliana 3:06
  4. Presto 3:24 PARTITA No. 1...

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
Eric Siblin

$32.98 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a rock music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites. There, in a spine-tingling moment, something unlikely happened: he fell de... More »

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