Bach: The Six Cello Suites

De Hoog, Viola

VIVAT 107

Seventh release on the VIVAT label features the greatest of all solo cello masterworks, Johann Sebastian Bachs extraordinary Six Suites for Solo Cello. Unique in the solo repertoire, Bachs six suites represent the musical summit for all cellists. • For three decades, renowned Dutch cellist Viola de Hoog has straddled the worlds of both period instrument performance playing as soloist and principal cellist with many of Europes greatest historic instrument orchestras and also the modern world, playing cello for twenty years in the world-famous Schönberg Quartet. • For this recording, Viola de Hoog plays a remarkable baroque cello from 1750 by the great Italian maker, Guadagnini an instrument perfect for Bachs music. For the sixth suite, which demands a five-string cello, she plays an equally unusual Bohemian instrument dating from the late 18th century. • Recorded in the perfect acoustic of the Oude Dorpskerk, Bunnik a historic Dutch church which has hosted many fine period instrument recordings by distinguished engineer Adriaan Verstijnen. • Extensive presentation includes 48 page booklet with authoritative liner note in four languages (English, Dutch, French & German) by renowned Bach expert Prof. Greta Haenen, together with session photographs, and reproductions from Anna Magdalena Bachs manuscript. The recording is excellent value, with two full CDs for the price of one.

CD x 2

Vivat

1/7/15

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