Bach Revealed: A Player’s Guide to the Solo Cello Suites Volume One for Cello

Cellist Selma Gokcen, in collaboration with distinguished American harpsichordist and Bach scholar Kenneth Cooper, has created in Bach Revealed a three-volume study of all six Cello Suites, featuring two-part playing editions for the very first time. (This first volume contains Bach’s First and Second Suites. Bach Revealed’s volumes two and three – which are currently in production – will contain the remainder of the work.) These versions are designed to assist professional cellists, students and teachers in their study of these Suites.This edition consists of musical reductions, mostly in two voices, which make explicit Bach’s complex harmonies by setting out their structure, without losing any of the originals' spirit and beauty. The reductions allow players to explore the layers of musical texture and reveal Bach’s counterpoint, chordal elaboration and ornamentation of the melodic line. They provide the implied bass line, the essential melodic line, opportunities for ornamentation a