Tabea Zimmermann, the violist on this album, received her first viola lessons at age three and began playing piano two years later.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Max Reger, the composer of the Viola Suites, considered Johann Sebastian Bach to be the 'beginning and end of all music'.
Recording & Production
This album is an Original DSD Recording, made in October and November 2008 at Ev. Kirche Honrath.
Compositional Technique
Bach's Cello Suites are compositional masterpieces, reducing harmonic structure to its essence and often building harmonies and melodies over many measures with minimal polyphony.
Interpretation
For this album, Tabea Zimmermann based her interpretation of Bach's Cello Suites on the version copied by Anna Magdalena Bach, the composer's second wife.
Performer Biography
Tabea Zimmermann plays on a viola made by contemporary violin maker Etienne Vatelot, which she received as a prize in the 1983 Maurice Vieux competition in Paris.
Interpretation
Tabea Zimmermann views her role as a musician as a translator, conveying the composer's intent while enriching it with her own ideas.
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