J.S. Bach: Complete Cello Suites (The 2023 Sessions)

Featuring

Jean-Guihen Queyras
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Recording & Production

This box set features two contrasting interpretations of Bach's Cello Suites: a filmed performance with dancers and a studio recording made 18 months later.

Interpretation

Jean-Guihen Queyras encourages his students to play Bach's Cello Suites as chamber music, imagining multiple protagonists, rather than as solo pieces.

Instruments

Jean-Guihen Queyras has performed and recorded all of Bach's Cello Suites, from 2007 to the present, on the same Gioffredo Cappa cello from 1696.

Performer Biography

Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras recorded Bach's Cello Suites for the first time in 2007, the day before his 40th birthday.

Interpretation

Jean-Guihen Queyras's new recording of the Cello Suites emphasizes the harmonic movement, drawing inspiration from his experience with improvisation in jazz.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker describes Bach's genius in the Cello Suites as 'maximising the minimum,' exploiting all possibilities of counterpoint and harmony on a single instrument.