A new instrument, new sonorities, and new insights motivated pieter wispelwey to make this new recording of bach s integral cello suites. Similar to my other favorite, heinrich schiff on emi, wispelwey employs widely varying tempos and flexible, often angular phrasing. Bach at the new city recital hall in sydney on june 10. Although the cello suites first flowed from the composers quill sometime in the early 1700s, it was casals who, two centuries later, made them famous. Nov 11, 2018 cello playing of incomparable technical and musical accomplishment the sunday times, deeply communicative and highly individual performances new york times and supremely lyrical and furiously intense the guardian, are just a few of the accolades that pieter wispelwey has acquired over the years. The cello suites, written in cothen around 1720, have been called the apotheosis of. One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a rock music critic, eric siblin attended a recital of joha.
Cello playing of incomparable technical and musical accomplishment the sunday times, deeply communicative and highly individual performances new york times and supremely lyrical and furiously intense the guardian, are just a few of the accolades that pieter wispelwey has acquired over the years. Also includes the sarabande from the cello suite no. Six suites for cello solo bwv 1007 pieter wispelwey. He used a baroque bow made by amsterdambased bow maker andreas grutter. However, a marimbist who wishes to approach bachs cello suites bwv. Pieter wispelwey has made numerous recordings for the channel classics label, of which no less than six have won international awards. Throw in growling cello textures due to a392 tuning, said to be authentic to the city of kothen where the suites were written, and you get extremely unsonglike utterances throughout. Then you can easily print only the violin part example. From a very early age he was exposed to the sounds of his fathers amateur string quartet when they rehearsed at the wispelwey home.
Important supplementary text for this cello lesson, other related videos and blogs, pdf downloads, and dozens. Brittens own friendship with rostropovich dated back to 1960 and resulted in the cello sonata, the cello symphony and finally the three solo cello suites 196471, particularly inspired by rostropovichs bach playing at the aldeburgh festival. Bach cello suites with pieter wispelwey orchestra of st. Despite being best known for his contributions to the choral, vocal and operatic repertoire, britten was an immensely versatile composer, producing works for every genre, from largescale symphonies to intimate chamber music pieces, as well. Instrumentation cello primary sources bach digital source list external links wikipedia article bwv 10071012. September 25, 1962 haarlem, the netherlands the dutch cellist, pieter wispelwey, was born in haarlem and grew up in santpoort. Cellist plays bach suites at 52, the dutch cello virtuoso pieter wispelwey boasts a wide repertoire, from the baroque to the 20th century masterpieces of. A comparative analysis of recorded performances of bachs sixth. In the last decade he has been regarded as one of the leading cello soloists.
Triple concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra score 1st movement 2nd movement 3rd movement triple concerto in c major op. This creates a problem for modern musicians who want to understand the composers vision. Extraordinary solo cello performance of bachs suites in australia by adrian falk 22 june 2000 pieter wispelwey, the 37yearold dutch cellist, performed all six suites for solo cello by j. Pdf scanned by bach digital mkxscorpion 2017722 copyist anna magdalena bach 17011760. Learned a lot, to be sure, about bach, casals and these wonderful notes. Bachs suites for unaccompanied cello have long been among my favorite pieces of music. Suites for cello solo 1990 recording pieter wispelwey on allmusic 1990. Cello classical cello classical cello free sheet music bach cello suite no. He has come to be regarded as one of the worlds leading performers and interpreters of both baroque and modern cello works he plays a 1760. It tells the life stories of bach and casals in relation to the cello suites, along with the story of the authors discovery of the suites and subsequent research into them.
Randy gordon, who introduced me to the bach suites so many years ago. The cello suites of js bach asu digital repository arizona state. In 1992 he was the first cellist ever to receive the netherlands music prize, given to the most promising young musician in the netherlands. For bowings and other reference please see the following editions. Nov 06, 20 cellist plays bach suites at 52, the dutch cello virtuoso pieter wispelwey boasts a wide repertoire, from the baroque to the 20th century masterpieces of shostakovich, britten and ligeti. Pieter wispelwey and the bach cello suites documentary. The bonus dvd was shot in the unique, historic ambiance of wadham and magdalen college, oxford. Fai ho pieter wispelwey born 25 september 1962 is a dutch cellist. Two different approaches to bachs solo cello suites. Stanley richie, anner bylsma, pieter wispelwey, paul odette, paul. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and. Pieter wispelwey played all six of bachs suites for cello with magical lightness, clarity and an imagination that seems to spontaneously call new musical shapes into being.
Like many of his string playing contemporaries, his musical integritymusicianship alone make it worth ones time to sit, listen and marvel. Double concerto for violin and cello and orchestra score 1st movement 2nd movement 3rd movement goncharenko, v. Pieter is a renowned interpreter of bachs six suites for unaccompanied cello, both on the baroque cello and, as well hear. Aug 14, 2017 pieter wispelwey played all six of bachs suites for cello with magical lightness, clarity and an imagination that seems to spontaneously call new musical shapes into being. The dutchman pieter wispelwey feels equally at home in baroque and modern cello repertoire, regularly giving concerts across five continents as an internationally soughtafter artist, as a guest of the sydney symphony orchestra, the tokyo philharmonic and london philharmonic orchestras or as a soloist in the louvre in paris, the teatro colon in buenos aries. Of the three suites, the first, written for zara nelsova, is the most accessible. Pieter wispelweys bach cello suites conjure up new musical.
Pieter wispelwey s new recordings dance with sophistication and personality, writes ivan hewett. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. While the bach suites are not technically difficult by modern standards of cello playing. The cello wispelwey played on for the first five suites is a baroque cello made by pieter rombouts in 1710.
The form of the preludes to bachs unaccompanied cello suites. May 11, 2018 free cello score references for errors and bowingsslurs. Of my three dozen discs, and innumerable performances ive heard live of bachs cello suites, none is as challenging as this, wispelweys third recording of the. Of his disc of shostakovich and kodaly with the australian chamber orchestra, gramophone. Wispelwey, it has been possible to identify overarching trends and individual. He was in fine creative form though the cancer that would finally kill him three years later had already taken hold. Pieter wispelwey accompanied by dejan lazic, picture. This is no doubt in part due to the hushed, organic sonority of his baroque cello, which often has an intimate, meditative quality. Suite i bwv 1007 suite ii bwv 1008 suite iii bwv 1009 suite iv bwv 1010 suite v bwv 1011 suite vi bwv 1012. Creating a recording like this is the work of a lifetime and i love that pieter wispelwey has included a dvd where he talks about the scholarly ideas associated with the project.
Bachs cello suites, volumes 1 and 2 book description. Brahms prize 2019 for pieter and paolo posted on 28 may 2019 on completion of their 5 cd collection of the complete duos of brahms and schubert, pieter and paolo have been. Lukes presents renowned dutch cellist and bach specialist pieter wispelwey at the newly renovated temple emanuel streicker center in a solo recital of bachs. Wispelweys set of bachs cello suites, then, is deserving of praise. Bachs suites for unaccompanied cello are among the most cherished and frequently played works in the entire literature of music, and yet they have never been the subject of a fulllength music analytical study. Pieter wispelwey born 25 september 1962 is a dutch cellist.
Pieter is a renowned interpreter of bachs six suites for unaccompanied cello, both on. The second suite 1967 owes as much to bartok and shostakovich as to bach. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. Wispelwey s second rendition of the bachs cello suites is among my favorites. Eric silbins the cello suites tenderly tracks them through bachs creation, their discovery by pablo casals and to the authors own exploration of the music and himself. The cello suites boroondara library service overdrive. Both of his versions were recorded live, but this one has a much more apt coupling the previous release had a selection of short works for cello and keyboard.
Extraordinary solo cello performance of bachs suites in. The cello symphony, so called because of the equal importance and interwoven dialogue that britten gives to both the soloist and the orchestra, is rarely performed or recorded. The key to this set is the dvd which is included, 392, pieter wispelwey and the bach cello suites. The first such composition was the sonata in c, followed by the cello symphony heard here, and the three suites for solo cello the first of which is heard here.
You will need the acrobat reader to view and print these 6 suites. In 1992, he was the first cellist to receive the netherlands music prize, a governmentawarded prize given to the most promising young musician in the netherlands. It doesnt matter if you already have a recording of bachs cello suites, or indeed six. Students are highly encouraged to look at bowing for clues as to how they contribution to interpretation, articulation, and motivic and compositional devices used by bach.
Pieter wispelweys new recordings dance with sophistication and personality, writes ivan hewett. My own discovery of the cello suites had taken place one autumn evening in 2000, a bach year marking two and a half centuries since the death of the composer. The 392 refers of course to the pitch at which his instrument is tuned, and this is a central aspect of how this performance is seen by wispelwey, and he demonstrates the clear differences between instruments. Pieter wispelwey plays the bach cello suites pieter wispelwey cello johann sebastian bach 16851750 suite no. This is pieter wispelweys second recording of the dvorak concerto for channel classics, and its a very good one. It may all seem to add up to something with only a passing resemblance to what bach wrote, but wispelwey has the chops to pull this off, and theres an. Bach cello wispelwey evil penguin records eprc012 dc. Free cello score references for errors and bowingsslurs. The music of the third b bach is, aptly, the central panel of this triptych. These include the bach and britten cello suites, the dvorak and elgar concertos, and much of the sonata repertoire. Composers of the baroque period are known to have maintained a level of detachment from their music, writing scores absent of many now commonplace musical notations. Pieter wispelwey haarlem, 1962 is a dutch cello player. If you are familiar with the gruff grandeur of pablo casals, or the aristocratic nobility of fournier, then these performances will throw an entirely different light on the music, more conversational and with airier discourse. Pieter wispelweys bach cello suites conjure up new.
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