Any young cellist wishing to record Bach must surely be aware of the competition, ranging from Casals through Rostropovich to Yo-Yo Ma (whose third and most satisfying recording of the Cello Suites appeared on Sony last year). Mike Block has decided to place individual movements from each of the Suites into a broader context, interspersing them with pieces by the quirky 20th-century master György Ligeti (the Solo Cello Sonata), the Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun (his Partita for Solo Cello), and – closer to Bach – one movement from a Ricercare by the Baroque composer/cellist Domenico Gabrielli. There is also a piece by Giovanni Sollima: Citarruni, commissioned for Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project.
Review
Echoes of Bach (Mike Block)
Framing Bach within a broad context that works for everyone.
by
Phillip Scott
on
1 April, 2019
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