Bach: 6 Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Editor: Andrew Talle Instrumentation: Cello Binding: ISMN: 9790006565771 Size: 10.0 x 12.8 inches Pages: 61 Urtext / Critical Edition Description When you think cello, you think of Bach's immortal cello suites. Appropriately and not surprisingly there are countless editions of the suites. But the composer's autograph has not come down to us. It is lost and this circumstance has always bein a Major challenge for editors. The four surviving handwritten sources and the original first edition of 1824 differ in many details, the articulation and phrasing being particularly ambiguous. In this new edition, Andrew Talle has fundamentally reassessed the relations between the surviving sources and has drawn conclusions regarding their evaluation and consequently the genesis of the suites. His evaluations are augmented with thorough discussions of the instrument for which the suites were conceived and the interpretative practices in Ba