Bach: The Cello Suites

Steven Isserlis’s multi-award-winning recording of the Bach Cello Suites represents a major milestone for a performer at the zenith of his career—described in The Independent as ‘the stuff of legend’. Steven’s eloquent booklet notes reveal his personal thoughts about the suites, as well as extensive academic research. His is an interpretation that has come from his passionate involvement in the music rather than from following the various theories that abound in Bach scholarship, and he discusses it fully in an article which is a perfect complement to this Gramophone Award-winning release. A 3LP set.

Tracklisting:

Cellosuite Nr. 1 in G-Dur BWV1007
Side A
1 Prelude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Menuet I – Menuet II
6 Gigue
7 The Song of the Birds Unbekannt - traditional , Bearb. Sally Beamish (b1956)

Cellosuite Nr. 1 in G-Dur BWV1007
8 Prelude, from the Anna Magdalena manuscript
9 Prelude, from the Johann Peter Kellner manuscript
10 Prelude, from the collection of Johann Christoph Westphal

Cellosuite Nr. 2 in d-Moll BWV1008
Side B
1 Prelude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Menuet I – Menuet II
6 Gigue

Cellosuite Nr. 3 in C-Dur BWV1009
Side C
1 Prelude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Bourrée I – Bourrée II
6 Gigue

Cellosuite Nr. 4 in Es-Dur BWV1010
Side D
1 Prelude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Bourrée I – Bourrée II
6 Gigue

Cellosuite Nr. 5 in c-Moll BWV1011
Side E
1 Prelude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Gavotte I – Gavotte II
6 Gigue

Cellosuite Nr. 6 in D-Dur BWV1012
Side F
1 Prelude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Gavotte I – Gavotte II
6 Gigue