Bach, J S: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012

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Pieter Wispelwey is equally at home on Baroque and modern instruments. These performances are carefully prepared, beautifully executed and most eloquently expressed. The instruments, too, sound... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

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

Work length18:12

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Pieter Wispelwey (soloist)

I. Prélude

Track length2:23

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II. Allemande

Track length4:54

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III. Courante

Track length2:48

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IV. Sarabande

Track length3:04

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V. Menuetts I & II

Track length3:21

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VI. Gigue

Track length1:42

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

Work length21:01

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Pieter Wispelwey (soloist)

I. Prélude

Track length3:25

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II. Allemande

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III. Courante

Track length2:18

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IV. Sarabande

Track length5:10

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V. Menuetts I & II

Track length3:08

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:51

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

Work length22:14

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Pieter Wispelwey (soloist)

I. Prélude

Track length3:06

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II. Allemande

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III. Courante

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IV. Sarabande

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V. Bourrées I & II

Track length3:41

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VI. Gigue

Track length3:29

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

Work length24:00

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Pieter Wispelwey (soloist)

I. Prélude

Track length4:08

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II. Allemande

Track length4:18

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III. Courante

Track length3:00

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IV. Sarabande

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V. Bourrées I & II

Track length4:41

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:56

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

Work length23:08

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Pieter Wispelwey (soloist)

I. Prélude

Track length5:44

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II. Allemande

Track length4:52

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III. Courante

Track length2:02

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IV. Sarabande

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V. Gavottes I & II

Track length4:27

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:24

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Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012 (Transcr. for Violoncello Piccolo by Pieter Wispelwey)

Work length31:10

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Pieter Wispelwey (soloist)

I. Prélude

Track length4:52

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II. Allemande

Track length8:23

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III. Courante

Track length3:45

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IV. Sarabande

Track length5:58

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V. Gavottes I & II

Track length4:08

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VI. Gigue

Track length4:04

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2010

Pieter Wispelwey is equally at home on Baroque and modern instruments. These performances are carefully prepared, beautifully executed and most eloquently expressed. The instruments, too, sound well, Wispelwey having chosen an early 18th-century cello by Barak Norman for the first five Suites, and a five-stringed violoncellopiccolo by an unidentified craftsman for the special requirements of the Sixth.
Wispelwey is an imaginative player with a highly developed sense of fantasy. These qualities are as welcome in his performances of Bach as they're to be treated with circumspection in his almost entirely fanciful written introduction to the music. Preludes come across especially well since it's in these wonderfully varied opening movements, with their rhetorical diversity, that the performer can give rein most freely to his or her most natural conversational inflexions.
And he makes the most of that thrilling climax at the peak of a chromatic accent through a full scale and a half. Sarabandes are profound and reflective without being weighty, and allemandes graceful and substantial. The galanteries, by contrast, are lightly bowed and redolent of playful and demonstrative gestures. That, to an extent, is true also of the courantes, while the gigues are firmly projected, full-toned and splendidly robust.
Wispelwey's set of Bach's Cello Suites, then, is deserving of praise. If you're 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. You may never want to be without the two earlier sets, but Wispelwey's version sits comfortably on the uppermost range of the period-instrument performance ladder.

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