Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
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Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Artist: Yo-Yo Ma (cello) 马友友(http://www.yo-yoma.com/)
Label: Sony
Catalogue No: 19075854652
Release Date: 17th Aug 2018
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
There’s an overwhelming sense of freedom to his playing here, both in terms of phrasing and even the basic sonorities themselves: the recording acoustic (closer and drier than that of its immediate... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical, 17th August 2018 More…
Presto Recording of the Week
17th August 2018
"Bach's cello suites have been my constant musical companions. For almost six decades, they have given me sustenance, comfort, and joy during times of stress, celebration, and loss. What power does this music possess that even today, after three hundred years, it continues to help us navigate through troubled times?"
--------Yo-Yo Ma
Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Yo-Yo Ma’s new album Six Evolutions – Bach Cello Suites, his third and final recording of these works. Bach and his Cellos Suites entered Yo-Yo Ma’s life when he was four, when he learned the first measure of the Prélude to Suite No. 1 under his father’s instruction. Ma has never lost his initial fascination.
“Bach’s Cello Suites have been my constant musical companions,” Ma writes of the music. “For almost six decades, they have given me sustenance, comfort and joy during times of stress, celebration and loss. What power does this music possess that even today, after three hundred years, it continues to help us navigate through troubled times?”
Ma is more convinced than ever of the suites’ ability to create shared meaning that extends far beyond the here and now. The suites’ collective vision – at once pergent and coherent, empathic and objective – reminds us of all that connects us despite an increasingly discordant public conversation.
The August release of Six Evolutions also signals the beginning of a two-year, six-continent journey in which Yo-Yo Ma will devote himself to Bach’s music, playing all six Cello Suites in a single setting in familiar and unlikely locations.
Six Evolutions – Bach: Cello Suites will not only offer an essential encapsulation of what this music means now to one of the world’s most celebrated artists, it begins a new chapter in the cellist’s 58-year relationship with this music.
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV1007
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV1010
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV1011
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV1012
Contents:
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV1007 17:10
I. Prélude 2:30
II. Allemande 4:15
III. Courante 2:34
IV. Sarabande 2:30
V. Menuets I & II 3:27
VI. Gigue 1:54
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008 18:58
I. Prélude 4:12
II. Allemande 3:27
III. Courante 1:48
IV. Sarabande 4:07
V. Menuets I & II 3:01
VI. Gigue 2:23
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009 20:18
I. Prélude 3:14
II. Allemande 3:44
III. Courante 3:08
IV. Sarabande 3:36
V. Bourrées I & II 3:39
VI. Gigue 2:57
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV1010 25:07
I. Prélude 4:52
II. Allemande 4:23
III. Courante 3:51
IV. Sarabande 4:08
V. Bourrées I & II 4:56
VI. Gigue 2:57
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV1011 24:52
I. Prélude 6:37
II. Allemande 5:46
III. Courante 2:08
IV. Sarabande 3:10
V. Gavottes I & II 4:28
VI. Gigue 2:43
Bach, J S: Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV1012 26:38
I. Prélude 4:44
II. Allemande 6:39
III. Courante 3:51
IV. Sarabande 4:01
V. Gavottes I & II 3:38
VI. Gigue 3:45