Bach Cello Suites

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I think you need to know her second, it's different. Less lyrical and sweet, more "speech like" , almost to the point of being disjointed.

I've been listening to the first and the second - good find @Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Ok I will look for her first in Japan!
Ed. I think somehow her second is for advanced listeners.

[Mandryka]

Ok I will look for her first in Japan!
Ed. I think somehow her second is for advanced listeners.

She recorded a lovely Debussy cello sonata with Jacques Rouvier on Denon.

[Mandryka]

Ed. I think somehow her second is for advanced listeners.

It certainly is iconoclastic.

[prémont]

Foreboding, or omen?

I tried to translate the Danish expression "til skræk og advarsel", but expressions like this aren't always easy to translate.

"For frightening and warning" or something like that if translated litterally.

[prémont]

I think you need to know her second, it's different. Less lyrical and sweet, more "speech like" , almost to the point of being disjointed.

I've been listening to the first and the second - good find @Dry Brett Kavanaugh

As far as I can see the only possibility in Europe is streaming.

[Mandryka]

As far as I can see the only possibility in Europe is streaming.

Yes -- but including youtube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Hi9pw3gEfTqCmTWVhUOjFgHBiDg4qmF

[prémont]

Yes -- but including youtube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Hi9pw3gEfTqCmTWVhUOjFgHBiDg4qmF

Thanks, so now I have a chance to get an idea of it.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Further listen: Milos Sadlo. Straight ahead. I liked it.

[AnotherSpin]

Sorry, it was released in 1985, not 2000! A review and a pic of cover are below.
Btw, the second photo is a Japanese cover art of the Gendron recording. I use it on my iPod.

https://bachcellosuites.co.uk/mari-fujiwara/mari-fujiwara-1985/

Thank you for mentioning Mari Fujiwara. I am listening for her second set for two days already and like it.

[Mandryka]

If you like the sound of Fujiwara II's cello, then try one which really impressed me in 2018 when it was release - Rocco Filippini. There's a post I made about it on the link below  - I can't quote it - #118009. The interpretation is really different from Fujiwara II though.


https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,21492.msg1160531.html#msg1160531

Fujiwara II reminds me of the violist Jonathan Dunford. She doesn't create an atmosphere which you can let wash over you, she doesn't impress you with lots of attractive colours - but somehow she gets to the heart of it.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

She recorded a lovely Debussy cello sonata with Jacques Rouvier on Denon.

Yes, the Debussy et al. album sounds fantastic.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

If you like the sound of Fujiwara II's cello, then try one which really impressed me in 2018 when it was release - Rocco Filippini. There's a post I made about it on the link below  - I can't quote it - #118009. The interpretation is really different from Fujiwara II though.


https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,21492.msg1160531.html#msg1160531

Fujiwara II reminds me of the violist Jonathan Dunford. She doesn't create an atmosphere which you can let wash over you, she doesn't impress you with lots of attractive colours - but somehow she gets to the heart of it.

Rocco Filippini's 1st recording and his second are very different. While his first is like a greasy beef jerky, his second is like tofu and rice eaten by Zen monks.

[Mandryka]

Rocco Filippini's 1st recording and his second are very different. While his first is like a greasy beef jerky, his second is like tofu and rice eaten by Zen monks.

I didn't know there was an earlier recording. Truth is, I'd never heard of him until the Fonè release, and I've never explored his work other than that -- just by oversight really.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Today's listen: Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Lluis Claret. I liked their performances and interpretations. But the sound quality of Harnoncourt is pretty bad. Also, whatever Fontfroid is, the recording sound of Claret has too much reverb and makes me tired.

[San Antone]

Also, whatever Fontfroid is, the recording sound of Claret has too much reverb and makes me tired.

Fontfroide is the venue, an abbey, and is probably naturally reverberant.  Once I got used to it, it was pleasing to me.

[Selig]

A new recording featuring a "5 string piccolo cello" for all 6 suites.

Returning to the topic of Anna Magdalena, Sollima writes that everything in that manuscript that "may seem like an oversight, missing or illogical, is instead the fruit of ingenuity, and of a concept of "internal" and perpetual variation." Does he stick to Anna Magdalena in the actual recording, though?

[Mandryka]

A new recording featuring a "5 string piccolo cello" for all 6 suites.

Returning to the topic of Anna Magdalena, Sollima writes that everything in that manuscript that "may seem like an oversight, missing or illogical, is instead the fruit of ingenuity, and of a concept of "internal" and perpetual variation." Does he stick to Anna Magdalena in the actual recording, though?

Well he says that he took, and continues to take,  AM as "the only reference" - so I guess he does.

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/18/000174081.pdf

I'm listening to the D minor now, it's "interesting" - in a good way- expressive too.

[Spotted Horses]

Well he says that he took, and continues to take,  AM as "the only reference" - so I guess he does.

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/18/000174081.pdf

I'm listening to the D minor now, it's "interesting" - in a good way- expressive too.

Should I take the fact that it is on 3 discs as signaling slow tempos?

[prémont]

Should I take the fact that it is on 3 discs as signaling slow tempos?

No, the suites take two CD's as usual, but the third CD contains some different mostly unknown (by me) music.

I haven't acquired the set yet.

[AnotherSpin]

No, the suites take two CD's as usual, but the third CD contains some different mostly unknown (by me) music.

I haven't acquired the set yet.

Alongside the main material, the set includes an additional music. The first piece is inspired by Steve Hackett's "Horizons" from Genesis's Foxtrot album. Interestingly, Hackett's work itself draws from Bach's Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007...