Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1009
Release: 2023
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009
01. I. Prélude
02. II. Allemande
03. III. Courante
04. IV. Sarabande
05. V. Bourrée I – VI. Bourrée II
06. VII. Gigue
Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV1010
07. I. Prélude
08. II. Allemande
09. III. Courante
10. IV. Sarabande
11. V. Bourrée I – VI. Bourrée II
12. VII. Gigue
“For me, whenever I play the Bach suites, all of a sudden I find myself visualising Giacometti’s hands incessantly moulding the earthen clay until a face appears. Getting to grips with the Bach suites is very closely related to that sense. You have to dig deeply into the string to give birth to the phrase, to make sure it breathes correctly: a phrase that is perpetually becoming, endlessly making and remaking itself. I waited a long time before recording these suites. Then one day, or rather one night, I began.Then there was my meeting with Sarah Moon. When I first felt my longing to record the Bach suites, I dreamt constantly of her images; because whenever I look at them I think of the creation of the world, the separation of the waters, the earth appearing, all before the beginning of history.”
Sonia Wieder-Atherton