Bach: Six Suites for Viola Solo BWV 1007-1012 / Libralon

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
September 24, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Simone Libralon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 24, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421964256
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96425
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prélude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    2. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    3. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    4. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    5. V. Menuet I and II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    6. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    7. I. Prélude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    8. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    9. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    10. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    11. V. Menuet I and II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    12. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    13. I. Prélude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    14. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    15. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    16. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    17. V. Bourree I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    18. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    19. I. Prélude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    20. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    21. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    22. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    23. V. Bourrée I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    24. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    25. I. Prélude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    26. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    27. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    28. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    29. V. Gavotte I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    30. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    31. I. Prélude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    32. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    33. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    34. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    35. V. Gavotte I-II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon

    36. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Simone Libralon


In the music of Bach, the Italian violist Simone Libralon has found a lifelong companion, who ‘unfailingly touches that emotional chord we need in the varied and contrasting moments of human experience - a safe haven reserved for intimate spirituality.’ His own approach to the suites which Bach wrote while Capellmeister at Weimar, however, is inflected not only by lived experience but also scholarship and a lively sense of performance style: ‘I’ve always thought of the sound of Bach in keyboard-related terms: fresh and light like a harpsichord, with the depth and solemnity of the organ, but sensed throughout as a continuum that conceals great compositional and conceptual complexity.’ His new recording of the Suites is accordingly personal and unique; he omits most of the marked repeats and brings a refreshingly flowing pulse to movements which are often interpreted as monuments of reflection such as the Sarabande of the Fifth Suite (here lasting less than a minute and a half). However, his decisions always arise from a sense of each movement’s inner character, and his account of the Sixth Suite’s Prelude is as spacious as Rostropovich’s. In doing so, he further demonstrates the imperishable quality of music which absorbs and reflects an almost infinite multiplicity of interpretations while conveying the different character of the artists who channel Bach’s inspiration.