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Bach: Cello Suites / Kliegel
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Bach: Cello Suites / Kliegel

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Composer
BACH J.S.
Artist
Maria, Kliegel
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Feb 22, 2005
Catalog #
8557280-81
UPC
747313228027

About

Bach wrote his six Suites for unaccompanied cello at Cöthen, about the year 1720. It is thought that the first four, at least, were written either for Christian Ferdinand Abel, bass viol player at Cöthen, or for Christian Bernhard Linike, more probably the latter. Abel, appointed to Cöthen in 1715 is not known to have been a cellist, while Linike was distinguished rather as a player of the cello and in this capacity had been appointed to the musical establishment of the court in Cöthen in 1716, thus rejoining former colleagues from the Prussian court musical establishment, disbanded in 1713 by Friedrich Wilhelm I on his accession to his father's throne. Both musicians were friends and colleagues of Bach. The original autograph of the suites is lost and the earliest copy is that made by the Gräfenroda organist and composer Johann Peter Kellner in about 1726. This is followed by that in the hand of Bach's second wife, Anna Magdalena, made probably in 1727 or 1728 for the Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel chamber musician Georg Heinrich Ludwig Schwanenberger, who had visited Leipzig at the time and taken lessons in thoroughbass from Bach, for whose daughter Regina Johanne he stood as godfather. Each of the six cello suites opens with a Prélude. Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007, has an introductory movement in which the changing harmonies are made clear in arpeggiated form. The usual Allemande and Courante are followed by a slow Sarabande, with a repeated Menuet II framing a G minor Menuet II. The suite ends, as it should, with a Gigue. Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008, opens again with an elaborate Prélude, ending with a series of grandiose arpeggiated chords. Once again the Allemande and Courante lead to a Sarabande and a D minor Menuet I is repeated to frame a D major Menuet II, before a lively final Gigue. Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009, has a Prélude that is marked Presto in a slightly later source. This opens boldly with a descending scale and an arpeggio that ends on the resonant bottom string of the instrument. A relatively elaborate Allemande is paired with a simpler Courante, followed by a stately Sarabande, a well-known movement that leads to the still more familiar pair of Bourrées, the second in C minor. The suite ends with an energetic Gigue. The fourth of Bach's cello suites, the Suite in E flat major, BWV 1010, opens, like the others, with a demanding Prélude. An Allemande follows, paired with a Courante, leading to a contrasting slow Sarabande. A busier first Bourrée is followed by a second that is simpler in texture and in the same key. The last movement is a lively Gigue. The fifth and six of Bach's cello suites differ in various ways from the first four. The fifth, the Suite in C minor, BWV 1011, was originally written in scordatura, a practice sometimes found in string music of the period, with the top A string of the instrument tuned down to G. The opening Prélude has a slower, embellished introduction before an extended faster fugal section in triple metre, it's fugal texture largely implied. An ornamented Allemande is duly followed by it's companion Courante and a slow Sarabande that strangely avoids the chordal pattern of it's predecessors. A first Gavotte is repeated after the unusual compound rhythm of the second Gavotte and the suite ends with a Gigue in dotted rhythm. The sixth of the suites, the Suite in D major, BWV 1012, is written for a five-string instrument, with an additional top string tuned to E. It has been suggested that Bach wrote this more difficult suite for the viola pomposa, a five-string viola that found occasional use from 1725 to about 1770. It seems, however, that Bach designed this work for the violoncello piccolo, a smaller form of cello, designed for more elaborate solo work and one that he uses elsewhere. The Prélude opens with the characteristic sound of bariolage, as the player repeats the note D on alternate strings. The Allemande has elaborate figuration and the companion Courante again exploits the wider possible range of the five-string instrument. A Sarabande is followed by a pair of Gavottes, played in alternation, and the suite ends with the customary and here demanding Gigue.

Tracklist 36 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Prelude 02:47
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  3. 2 II. Allemande 05:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allemande
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  4. 3 III. Courante 02:28
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Courante
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  5. 4 IV. Sarabande 02:57
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Sarabande
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  6. 5 V. Menuet I and II 03:27
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Menuet I and II
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  7. 6 VI. Gigue 01:30
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Gigue
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  8. 7 I. Prelude 03:42
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  9. 8 II. Allemande 03:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Allemande
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  10. 9 III. Courante 02:01
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Courante
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  11. 10 IV. Sarabande 04:55
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Sarabande
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  12. 11 V. Menuet I and II 03:18
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. Menuet I and II
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  13. 12 VI. Gigue 02:34
    Track
    12
    Title
    VI. Gigue
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  14. 13 I. Prelude 05:27
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  15. 14 II. Allemande 08:52
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Allemande
    Duration
    08:52
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  16. 15 III. Courante 03:52
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Courante
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  17. 16 IV. Sarabande 05:48
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Sarabande
    Duration
    05:48
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  18. 17 V. Gavotte I and II 05:00
    Track
    17
    Title
    V. Gavotte I and II
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  19. 18 VI. Gigue 04:37
    Track
    18
    Title
    VI. Gigue
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  20. Disc 2
  21. 1 I. Prelude 03:58
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  22. 2 II. Allemande 03:45
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allemande
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  23. 3 III. Courante 03:10
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Courante
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  24. 4 IV. Sarabande 04:43
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Sarabande
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  25. 5 V. Bourree I and II 04:14
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Bourree I and II
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  26. 6 VI. Gigue 02:59
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Gigue
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  27. 7 I. Prelude 05:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  28. 8 II. Allemande 04:39
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Allemande
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  29. 9 III. Courante 03:34
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Courante
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  30. 10 IV. Sarabande 04:26
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Sarabande
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  31. 11 V. Bourree I and II 05:24
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. Bourree I and II
    Duration
    05:24
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  32. 12 VI. Gigue 02:40
    Track
    12
    Title
    VI. Gigue
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  33. 13 I. Prelude 06:30
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  34. 14 II. Allemande 06:57
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Allemande
    Duration
    06:57
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  35. 15 III. Courante 02:14
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Courante
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  36. 16 IV. Sarabande 04:41
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Sarabande
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  37. 17 V. Gavotte I and II 05:08
    Track
    17
    Title
    V. Gavotte I and II
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel
  38. 18 VI. Gigue 02:33
    Track
    18
    Title
    VI. Gigue
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Maria Kliegel