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

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here's a snapshot of a highly gifted musician in the midst of an exploratory process…he's gone back to Anna Magdalena's copy, finding a variant of the opening material in the D major Prelude... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015 More…

Release Date: 31st Jul 2015
Catalogue No: DCD34150
Label: Delphian
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

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

Work length16:49

$6.00

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Philip Higham (cello)
Recorded: 2-4 August 2014
Recording Venue: St. John the Evangelist Church, Upper Norwood, London, United Kingdom

I. Prélude

Track length2:44

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II. Allemande

Track length3:53

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III. Courante

Track length2:39

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IV. Sarabande

Track length2:34

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V. Menuets I & II

Track length3:12

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VI. Gigue

Track length1:47

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

Work length18:56

$6.00

$7.80

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Philip Higham (cello)
Recorded: 2-4 August 2014
Recording Venue: St. John the Evangelist Church, Upper Norwood, London, United Kingdom

I. Prélude

Track length3:49

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$1.75

II. Allemande

Track length3:25

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III. Courante

Track length1:51

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IV. Sarabande

Track length4:13

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V. Menuets I & II

Track length3:01

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:37

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

Work length19:18

$6.00

$7.80

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Philip Higham (cello)
Recorded: 2-4 August 2014
Recording Venue: St. John the Evangelist Church, Upper Norwood, London, United Kingdom

I. Prélude

Track length2:39

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II. Allemande

Track length3:29

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III. Courante

Track length3:01

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IV. Sarabande

Track length3:47

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V. Bourrées I & II

Track length3:21

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VI. Gigue

Track length3:01

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

Work length23:26

$6.00

$7.80

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Philip Higham (cello)
Recorded: 19-21 November 2014
Recording Venue: St. John the Evangelist Church, Upper Norwood, London, United Kingdom

I. Prélude

Track length4:06

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II. Allemande

Track length4:26

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III. Courante

Track length3:20

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IV. Sarabande

Track length3:58

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V. Bourrées I & II

Track length4:34

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VI. Gigue

Track length3:02

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

Work length23:21

$6.00

$7.80

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Philip Higham (cello)
Recorded: 19-21 November 2014
Recording Venue: St. John the Evangelist Church, Upper Norwood, London, United Kingdom

I. Prélude

Track length5:48

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II. Allemande

Track length5:30

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III. Courante

Track length2:06

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IV. Sarabande

Track length2:54

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V. Gavottes I & II

Track length4:52

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VI. Gigue

Track length2:11

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

Work length28:27

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Philip Higham (cello)
Recorded: 19-21 November 2014
Recording Venue: St. John the Evangelist Church, Upper Norwood, London, United Kingdom

I. Prélude

Track length4:44

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

II. Allemande

Track length7:37

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III. Courante

Track length3:35

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IV. Sarabande

Track length4:49

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V. Gavottes I & II

Track length3:40

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VI. Gigue

Track length4:02

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Philip Higham's debut recording, a disc of Benjamin Britten's three solo suites, won acclaim across the board, including Disc of the Month accolades from both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. He has chosen to follow it directly with the Bach suites which were Britten's inspiration, and which remain pinnacles of the repertoire for any cellist. Higham has returned to Anna Magdalena Bach's manuscript copy of the works, recently the object of some controversy. For Higham, however, the manuscript is a provocation not to speculation over authorship but to interpretations at once broadly and deeply conceived. Not afraid to question received wisdom, Higham's thoughtful yet daring approach also leads him to combine elements of period and modern style both in his playing and in his choice of instruments – a 1697 cello for the first five suites and a 2013 five-string instrument to bring out the extraordinary range of colours with which Bach invested the crowning Sixth.

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October 2015

here's a snapshot of a highly gifted musician in the midst of an exploratory process…he's gone back to Anna Magdalena's copy, finding a variant of the opening material in the D major Prelude which adds a piquant suspension to the pattern. Higham has also absorbed its asymmetric implied bowings, bringing a fascinating, fluid tension to the G major Prelude, in particular.

Early Music Review 1st August 2015

I reckon Higham could just have been handed a twig from a tree and he would have made beautiful music! … I will be impressed if he can better these renditions.

September 2015

Higham plays his usual warm and fulsome Testore for Suites Nos. 1 to 5 but swaps to a clean and crisp modern five-string Roth cello for the filigree Sixth Suite. It is hard to imagine how Higham could have done better than choose these very different instruments to elicit the combinations of tone and colour that he is able to achieve across the Suites.

2nd August 2015

What’s most impressive about these compelling readings is that Higham avoids the romanticist’s self-indulgently furrowed brow without sacrificing intensity.

15th August 2015

There’s a beautifully meditative quality to these performances of Bach’s solo cello Suites by Philip Higham that is both soothing and questioning … the entire set displays a seamless flow of invention that takes us from the pragmatic virtuosity of the 1st to the heart-tugging emotion of the 6th as if on a life’s journey. Higham’s use of a 5-string instrument in the latter endows the finale of this 2-CD set with a prophetic, luminescent glow

The Herald (Glasgow) August 2015

The character he finds throughout this music is consistently revealing...unpretentious depths and organic, naturalistic flow: the highest possile recommendation.

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