Bach: 6 Suites for Solo Cello, BWV 1007-1012
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Instrumentation: Cello Binding: Hardcover ISMN: 9790006545445 Size: 10.2 x 13.0 inches Pages: 400 Urtext / Critical Edition Description Bach Suites for Cello solo in the New Bach Edition - Revised Unlike Bach's violin solos, his "Six Suites for Cello Solo" have not come down to us in his own hand. The four surviving handwritten sources and the original first edition of 1824 differ in many details, the articulation and phrasing being particularly ambiguous. Now Andrew Talle has fundamentally reassessed the relations between these surviving sources for Volume 4 of the "New Bach Edition - Revised". He has drawn Major conclusions regarding their evaluation and consequently the genesis of the suites, which presumably took place over a lengthy period of time. His evaluations are augmented with thorough discussions of the instrument for which the suites were conceived and the interpretative practices in Bach's day. The musical text p