J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 1007-1012

David Watkin

J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 1007-1012
Format
Audio
Published
10 March 2015
ISBN
5060262790519

J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 1007-1012

David Watkin

Renowned cellist and interpreter of Baroque music David Watkin records the Cello Suites by J.S. Bach, rightly considered as the pinnacle of writing for solo cello. Juror of the Leipzig Bach Competition; former principal cellist of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique & the English Baroque Soloists, as well as the cellist of the critically acclaimed Eroica Quartet, Watkin gives a captivating and truly individual account of the six suites, the result of decades of performing and studying these compelling and fascinating works.

The six Suites are recorded on gut strings and on two original historic instruments of note, including the unique five-string cello by Brothers Amati, dating from c. 1600, and a four-string by a likely pupil of Amati, Francesco Rugeri, dating from c. 1670.

‘Familiar works these may be, but truly exploratory, technically refined and strongly personal performances - as here - can help us hear them anew. A triumph for David Watkin and the Resonus label.’

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