Bach Suites Violoncelle

Johann Jakob Walther - Hortulus Chelicus Mainz, 1688
Les Plaisirs du Parnasse - David Plantier
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 382 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Zig Zag # ZZT060902 | Country/Year: France 2006
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

…It will, of course, be of strong interest to lovers of the Baroque violin, however, and Plantier is a superbly agile player capable of producing the large variety of tone colors this music needs. The bright sound, recorded in a large public hall in Basel, Switzerland, is attractive and brings out small details in Plantier's performances.

Cellist Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella Orchestra focus on Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and first virtuoso cellist in history. Born in the Tuscany, Boccherini then went to the Court of Prussa and Spain. His musical education looks like a journey around Europe, as it used to be. Long eclipsed by the violin, star of the string instruments, the cello slowly fit in the eighteenth century repertoire thanks to composers who played the instrument themselves. The now famous Suites of Johan Sebastian Bach are the first master pieces composed for the cello. Then Luigi Boccherini strengthened its place in the musical creation, thus becoming to cello what Vivaldi was to the violin one generation earlier.