6 Suites for Cello Solo
Product Description A new instrument, new sonorities, and new insights motivated Pieter Wispelwey to make this new recording of Bach s integral Cello Suites. The bonus DVD was shot in the unique, historic ambiance of Wadham and Magdalen College, Oxford; it features Wispelwey in musical and scholarly interaction with acclaimed Bach researchers Laurence Dreyfus and John Butt. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 16:9 (Widescreen), Color, English (Dolby Digital 2.0 & Dolby Digital 5.1), Not Rated, Run Time: 52 min. Review In one fell swoop, Dutch upstart label Evil Penguin changes the Bach Six Solo Cello Suites landscape and asserts itself on the international stage with its release of the great Pieter Wispelwey s third recording of Bach s iconic six-pack.Wielding a new instrument, using a dramatically lower pitch and drawing on three of the best minds in the authentic Bach performance practice business, Wispelwey s playing is studded with moments of unusual intimacy about differentiating each Suite, each movement, each bar, according to the composer s vast command of musical elements.For example, for the cadenza at the end of Prelude No. 2, Wispelwey hurls brilliant arpeggiated staccatos. In the series of dances called Allemandes he finds paths of beauty unique to each. He plays the Sixth Suite on a piccolo cello; the effect is light, baroque and airy, as Wispelwey told me, party time but not heavy. The DVD features discussion and debate between Wispelwey and his musicological team about the mysteries of the Suites and the decisions to be made when performing them. Totally transforming, not to mention spaced out on romance and musicology.Bach Six Cello Suites played at pitch 392Pieter Wispelwey, baroque cello and cello piccoloEvil Penguin 2 CDs and 1 DVD --Laurence Vittes - Huffington Post
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