Jean-Guihen Queyras takes us into the secrets of one of the moste famous work for cello solo.
How did Bach come to conceive the unimaginable: composing an two-and-a-half hour “opera” for a single 4-stringed instrument?
Why did he use dances throughout the Suites? Are these dances meant to be danced? How does one choose a bowing? How free can the interpreter be? These are only a few of the many questions on which Jean-Guihen will give us his insight as a passionate performer of this Masterwork.
1. Suite 1, Prélude: The Call of Nature
Feat. Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker
2. Suite 1, Allemande: The Storyteller
Feat. Pierre-Laurent Aimard
3. Suite 1, Courante: Up=Down, Down=Done
Feat. Paolo Pandolfo
4. Suite 1, Sarabande: The Erotic of 1 and 2
Feat. Sonia Simmenauer
5. Suite 1, Menuet: Duality and Galanterie
Feat. Amandine Beyer
6. Suite 1, Gigue: Bar structures as a dance map
Feat. Emmanuel Hondré
7. Suite 2, Prélude: What is your Minore?
Feat. Steven Isserlis
8. Suite 2, Allemande: Speaking or singing?
Feat. Emmanuel Pahud
9. Suite 2, Courante: A bout de souffle
Feat. Lambert Wilson
10. Suite 2, Sarabande: Hommage to Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Camille Bertault
11. Suite 2, Menuet: Play the Lute!
Feat. Pieter Wispelwey
12. Suite 2, Gigue: Bach’s Leitmotivs
Feat. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
13. Suite 3, Prélude: The buoyancy of C Major
Feat. Bernard Fouccroulle
14. Suite 3, Allemande: The complexity of Evidence
Feat. Timothy Eddy
15. Suite 3, Courante: Notes with double-functions
Feat. Michael Jarrell
16. Suite 3, Sarabande: The power of the hemiola
Feat. Alexis Kossenko
17. Suite 3, Bourrée: The two faces of a dance
Feat. Emilie Delorme
18. Suite 3, Gigue: Energy from synergy
Feat. Maarten Mostert
19. Suite 4, Prélude
Feat. Jean-François Queyras
20. Suite 4, Allemande: Horizontality needs verticality
Feat. Sokratis Sinopoulos
21. Suite 4, Courante: a trilogy of characters
Feat. Nicolas Altstaedt
22. Suite 4, Sarabande: The irresistible call of the second measure
Feat. Alexandra Scheibler
23. Suite 4, Bourrées: Stretching and dancing
Feat. Sasha Goetzel
24. Suite 4, Gigue: A whirlwind in 12/8
Feat. Jean-Guihen Queyras
25. Suite 5, Prélude: Un Prélude et Fugue pour Cello
Feat. Christoph Wolff
26. Suite 5, Allemande: A French Majesty
Feat. Kristian Bezuidenhout
27. Suite 5, Courante: Explosion / Implosion
Feat. Vera Beths
28. Suite 5, Sarabande: Le moins et le plus
Feat. Raphaël Imbert
29. Suite 5, Gavotte: The life beyond
Feat. Vito Žuraj
30. Suite 5, Gigue: The Soothing
Feat. Pablo Heras-Casado
31. Suite 6, Prélude: Ring, Easter Bells!
Feat. Sergey Malov
32. Suite 6, Allemande: When our soul flies
Feat. Riccardo Minasi