Viviane Spanoghe - Cello Suites - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

After her acclaimed PENTATONE debut with Transfigured Night, Alisa Weilerstein returns with a complete recording of Bach's Cello Suites. These pieces present the highest mountain to climb for any cellist, and one of the most transcendent and rewarding experiences for listeners alike. With his suites, Bach crafted - essentially without direct precedent - a body of solo cello music that forever defined the genre and brought the Baroque cello on par with it's more popular cousin, the viola da gamba. Since Pablo Casals put them in the limelight again after 150 years of relative oblivion, Bach's suites have become the alpha and omega for generations of cellists. To Weilerstein, the joy of this music - vibrant, contemporary, unquestionably alive - is the joy of discovery. Having heard and studied these pieces for years, she now entrusts her interpretation to the listener. Since signing an exclusive contract PENTATONE, Alisa Weilerstein has released Transfigured Night (2018), and featured on Inon Barnatan's Beethoven Piano Concertos Part 1 as well as Old Souls, an album with music for flute and strings (both released in 2019).

One of the most important cycles ever written for cello solo performed by one of the most sought after European cellists. The Japanese cellist, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann, gained her performance diploma on the modern cello at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo (Diploma 1994). She then specialized in historical performance on the violoncello and viola da gamba at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, graduating with a soloist diploma in 2000. She was a prize-winner at the first 'Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco' (Brescia, Italy; chairman Gustav Leonhardt) in 1995 and the first cellist to win the soloist prize at the Concours Musica Antiqua Brugge (Belgium) in 1996. Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is active as a soloist and as a member of leading early music groups worldwide, participating in tours, festivals, opera productions and recordings. Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann also gives master-classes and coaches orchestras at festivals around the world. She currently lives in Sweden, where she is a member of the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and teaches the baroque cello at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

J.S. Bach - Cello Suites [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 10/12/2010