A new instrument, new sonorities, and new insights motivated Pieter Wispelwey to make this new recording of Bach’s integral Cello Suites. The DVD which is released as a bonus to the double CD was shot in the unique historical ambiance of Wadham and Magdalen college, Oxford: it features Wispelwey in musical and scholarly interaction with acclaimed Bach researchers Laurence Dreyfus and John Butt. It bears testimony to the unfathomableness and eminence of this music that so much remains to be (re)discovered in it for a virtuoso who has played it close to a thousand times on stage.

Tracklist

CD 1

Suite no.1 in G major BWV 1007

1 Prelude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Menuet I and II
6 Gigue

Suite no.2 in D minor BWV 1008
7 Prelude
8 Allemande
9 Courante
10 Sarabande
11 Menuet I and II
12 Gigue

Suite no.3 in C major BWV 1009
13 Prelude
14 Allemande
15 Courante –
16 Sarabande –
17 Bourrée I and II –
18 Gigue

CD 2

Suite no.4 in E flat major BWV 1010

1 Prelude
2 Allemande
3 Courante
4 Sarabande
5 Bourrée I and II
6 Gigue

Suite no.5 in C minor BWV 1011

7 Prelude
8 Allemande
9 Courante
10 Sarabande
11 Gavotte I and II
12 Gigue


Suite no.6 in D major (a cinq cordes) BWV 1012

13 Prelude
14 Allemande
15 Courante
16 Sarabande –
17 Gavotte I and II
18 Gigue