JS Bach: Cello Suites: arranged for violin

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A spellbinding set that is arguably Podger's finest recorded achievement to date...Music that one thinks of instinctively as boldly-etched, deeply (in every sense) introspective and eliciting... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2019 More…

Release Date: 26th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: CCSSA41119
Label: Channel
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV1007

Work length16:32

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Rachel Podger (violin)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: The Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London

I. Prelude

Track length2:08

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II. Allemande

Track length4:18

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III. Courante

Track length2:26

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IV. Sarabande

Track length3:00

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V. Menuet I & II

Track length3:01

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VI. Gigue

Track length1:39

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Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008

Work length20:06

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Rachel Podger (violin)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: The Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London

I. Prelude

Track length3:35

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II. Allemande

Track length3:03

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III. Courante

Track length2:30

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IV. Sarabande

Track length5:00

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V. Bourrée I & II

Track length2:50

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VI. Gigue

Track length3:08

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Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009

Work length20:08

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Rachel Podger (violin)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: The Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London

I. Prelude

Track length2:54

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II. Allemande

Track length3:18

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III. Courante

Track length3:14

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IV. Sarabande

Track length4:18

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V. Gavotte I & II

Track length3:28

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:56

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Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV1010

Work length21:39

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Rachel Podger (violin)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: The Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London

I. Prelude

Track length2:57

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II. Allemande

Track length4:17

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III. Courante

Track length3:02

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IV. Sarabande

Track length3:47

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V. Menuet I & II

Track length4:43

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:53

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Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV1011

Work length22:19

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Rachel Podger (violin)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: The Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London

I. Prelude

Track length5:47

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II. Allemande

Track length5:23

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III. Courante

Track length2:04

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IV. Sarabande

Track length2:29

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V. Bourrée I & II

Track length4:30

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:06

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Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV1012

Work length26:21

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Rachel Podger (violin)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: The Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London

I. Prelude

Track length3:54

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II. Allemande

Track length6:59

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III. Courante

Track length3:22

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IV. Sarabande

Track length4:22

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V. Gavotte I & II

Track length3:54

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VI. Gigue

Track length3:50

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Interview, Rachel Podger on Bach's Cello Suites

9th May 2019

The violinist talks to David about her new album, which sees her perform JS Bach's popular cello suites on the violin.

Recording of the Week, Rachel Podger plays the Bach Cello Suites

26th April 2019

The baroque violinist's own transcriptions of one of the pinnacles of the cello repertoire have an integrity and intelligence that's entirely convincing on its own terms, and the music never stops dancing.

'Since, I have spent a fair bit of time coaching cellists, both modern and baroque alike, and found myself playing along to demonstrate various points I gradually could feel these pieces joining the violin partitas and sonatas as another kind of ‘daily bread’; I started catching myself playing some of the movements I particularly loved while warming up, and realising that it was actually possible to play them on the violin, and to find a special expressive vocabulary at the higher pitch.

How could one possibly justify it, especially with works that have peppered the recording catalogue with some of the most iconic and adored string performances of all time, the Casals, Fourniers, Torteliers or Starkers? But what I was doing also seemed very much in keeping with Bach’s own habit of recycling his own compositions for different instruments and different uses. The examples are endless but I immediately think of the concertos appearing as sinfonias in cantatas, or concertos for violins turned into harpsichord concertos.

The more I reflect, the less I feel the need to be defensive because Bach did far more outrageous things! Think of the Prelude of the E major Partita for violin turned into a full orchestral cantata movement with trumpets and drums…' (Rachel Podger)

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July 2019

A spellbinding set that is arguably Podger's finest recorded achievement to date...Music that one thinks of instinctively as boldly-etched, deeply (in every sense) introspective and eliciting a melancholic sense of struggle, becomes more dance-like, airy and freewheeling.

June 2019

Podger adopts the Suites with bravura and the confidence that while their nature may change, their stature will not be diminished… Shorter strings allow for graceful ornamentation of gigues beyond the reach of even the most fleet-fingered cellist… whereas the sarabandes demand all of Podger’s bow control and even then their essential gravity is necessarily modulated with the smile of a more flowing pulse.

26th April 2019

Reclothed in the brighter colours of D major, the opening Prelude of the ‘G major’ Suite shimmers with an unfamiliar, iridescent beauty that’s as disconcerting as it’s beguiling…Like many of my most treasured interpreters Podger never draws undue attention to the mechanics behind the music. She clearly knows and loves its every contour as well as any cellist...Neither Podger nor I would advocate that you banish your Rostropovich, Casals or Fournier, but anyone who loves these endlessly rewarding works should give this recording a whirl.

2nd May 2019

In Podger’s hands they sound altogether new, not like a higher-pitched copy of the familiar cello works but like something written for her own instrument...Played on the cello, these sets of stylised dances sit companionably with you beside the ballroom floor. Here, on the violin, they drag you up on to your feet and whirl you around. That’s partly to do with the buoyancy of Podger’s playing, full of agile twists and turns, and partly because some movements naturally flow faster on the violin.

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Interview, Rachel Podger on Bach's Cello Suites

Recording of the Week, Rachel Podger plays the Bach Cello Suites

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