Cello Suites - Frank Peter Zimmermann - Music - HARMONIA MUNDI - 7090020181769 - August 2, 2018
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Cello Suites

Frank Peter Zimmermann

Cello Suites

The six cello suites on this recording have their parallel in six sonatas for solo violin, also from Bach's time in Köthen, before he moved to Leipzig. On the title page of the violin sonatas the composer wrote Libro primo (First Book). The original manuscript of the cello suites has vanished, but both wife Anna Magdalena and others left copies. Did the composer perhaps call the cello suites Second Book?

Traditional dance forms are the bones of the suites as they are in other suites by Bach and other Baroque composers. But this is not music for a palace ball. The dance tradition serves as the basis for an unrelenting elaboration and exploration of contours, sounds and rhythms.


BJORG LEWIS

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Specielt cover Digipak
Composer J.S. Bach
Released August 2, 2018
EAN/UPC 7090020181769
Label HARMONIA MUNDI LWC1154
Genre Classical     Chamber Music
Dimensions 127 × 140 × 8 mm   ·   72 g
Soloist Bjorg Lewis

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