Bach: Cello Suites

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Label
LAWO Classics
Release Date
September 7, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Bjorg Lewis
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 07, 2018
    • UPC
      7090020181769
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      LWC1154
    • LABEL
      LAWO Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    2. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    3. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    4. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    5. V. Bourree I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    6. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    7. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    8. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    9. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    10. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    11. V. Menuet I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    12. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    13. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    14. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    15. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    16. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    17. V. Gavotte I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis

    18. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Bjørg Lewis


The six cello suites on this recording have their parallel in six sonatas for solo violin, also from Bach's time in Kothen, before he moved to Leipzig. On the title page of the violin sonatas the composer wrote Libro primo. 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 is one of Norway's most sought-after and admired cellists. She plays on a Gennaro Gagliano dated 1748.