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Torrent bach cello suite 19/23/2023 ![]() Starker’s fifth recording of the suites has a purity and beauty and intelligence which for me has seldom been approached by any other recorded music. My favorite recording of the cello suites would either be one of the ones by Janos Starker or the more recent one by Mstislav Rostropovich. Casals reintroduced them to the repertoire. Before he started playing them, the cello suites were considered essentially unplayable technical exercises. ![]() The recordings by Pablo Casals are legendary, and were actually my introduction to this music-a great and interesting, and unusual, way to discover the cello suites, as Casals was discovering them himself in these records. Well, the Yo-Yo Ma recordings have been perhaps the most widely known and heard in recent years, but they have never been my favorites. They were most likely composed during the period 1717–1723, when Bach served as a Kapellmeister in Cöthen… (via Wikipedia.) The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are some of the most performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello. Again, I am not one to not take a hint-and the hint was two different buskers playing Bach’s cello suites in the one day, so…
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