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 | | From: | Ann Burlingham | | Subject: | bach cello suites | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 13:23:45 -0500 |
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since we're talking cellists, how about a recommendation for a
recording of the bach cello suites? i'm thinking anner bylsma, but how
about a companion/comparison version?
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| | From: | Jess Anderson | | Subject: | Re: bach cello suites | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:31:43 +0000 (UTC) |
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| Ann Burlingham:
>since we're talking cellists, how about a recommendation for a
>recording of the bach cello suites? i'm thinking anner bylsma,
>but how about a companion/comparison version?
Seems to me Anner Bylsma doesn't leave a whole lot of room for
comparisons. After him, everything else misses the mark by a
wide margin, IMO.
At least with the solo violin sonatas and suites you can have
either or both of Reinhard Goebel or Sigiswald Kuijken. For the
violin & harpsichord sonatas, it's either Reinhard Goebel &
Robert Hill or Monica Huggett & Ton Koopman (I'd give the edge
to the latter, which is heavenly).
--
[] The only difference between a man and a machine is that a
[] machine is quiet when well oiled.
[] -- Doug Gault
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* Copyright 2005 Jess Anderson
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| | From: | David W. Fenton | | Subject: | Re: bach cello suites | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 01:20:01 GMT |
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| anderson@wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) wrote in
news:csu9mu$18r$1@news.doit.wisc.edu:
> Ann Burlingham:
>
>>since we're talking cellists, how about a recommendation for a
>>recording of the bach cello suites? i'm thinking anner bylsma,
>>but how about a companion/comparison version?
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> Seems to me Anner Bylsma doesn't leave a whole lot of room for
> comparisons. After him, everything else misses the mark by a
> wide margin, IMO.
>
> At least with the solo violin sonatas and suites you can have
> either or both of Reinhard Goebel or Sigiswald Kuijken. For the
> violin & harpsichord sonatas, it's either Reinhard Goebel &
> Robert Hill or Monica Huggett & Ton Koopman (I'd give the edge
> to the latter, which is heavenly).
I sure wish her Sonatas & Partitas were not such a huge
disappointment. I bought them because I just adored her Corelli Op.
5 (an absolutely stunning recording), but the Bach just doesn't cut
it.
She's a really amazing violinist, so I don't know quite what went
wrong with the Bach -- it all just comes out too studied, no forward
momentum, nothing holds together.
I'm rather partial to my friend James's recordings of the Bach, but
they are not quite in the same league.
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David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
dfenton at bway dot net http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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| | From: | Ann Burlingham | | Subject: | Re: bach cello suites | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 00:17:01 -0500 |
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| "David W. Fenton" writes:
> I'm rather partial to my friend James's recordings of the Bach, but
> they are not quite in the same league.
i wanted a copy of my ex's master's recital of suites, but she never
gave me one. listening to bylsma nightly while she worked on them is
what makes me want to own some copy.
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| | From: | Ann Burlingham | | Subject: | Re: bach cello suites | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 20:07:50 -0500 |
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| anderson@wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
> Ann Burlingham:
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> >since we're talking cellists, how about a recommendation for a
> >recording of the bach cello suites? i'm thinking anner bylsma,
> >but how about a companion/comparison version?
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> Seems to me Anner Bylsma doesn't leave a whole lot of room for
> comparisons. After him, everything else misses the mark by a
> wide margin, IMO.
bylsma it is, then.
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| | From: | Arne Adolfsen | | Subject: | Re: bach cello suites | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 03:25:37 GMT |
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| Ann Burlingham wrote:
> since we're talking cellists, how about a recommendation for a
> recording of the bach cello suites? i'm thinking anner bylsma, but how
> about a companion/comparison version?
Bylsma, yes. (I've attended two of his LA concerts and own a lot of his
LPs and CDs and he really is wonderful.) And for historical and musical
reasons there's Casals. My favorite however is Janos Starker. The set
used to be on Mercury, but I have no idea if it's still available.
It's, um, stark, and kind of confrontational, but Starker's playing is
absolutely gorgeous.
(Nathan Milstein for the Bach violin solo pieces.)
Arne
adolfsen@earthlink.net
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