Colin carr and the bach cello suites free wednesday, 18. Colin carr has appeared throughout the world as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. Carr negotiated every last one of them without losing the long line. Caroline gill to be so moved by so little is to show in perfectly appropriate terms the very nature of these pieces, and a rare and special event on any disc let alone a live recording. He is principal cellist of the orchestre revolutionnaire et romantique and solo cellist with les siecles, as well as a regular guest principal with the australian chamber orchestra, scottish chamber orchestra, bbc national orchestra and chorus of wales, royal northern sinfonia, irish. The album bach solo cello suites live of colin carr is here. Check out bach solo cello suites live by colin carr on amazon music. Join facebook to connect with colin bach and others you may know. Colin carr supplied an extraordinary performance of bachs six cello suites. Reviews colin carr s lucid, lively bach at boco last night cellist colin carr, offered j. Colin carr cello short biography bach cantatas website. The piatigorsky international cello festival the new yorker. Colin has played complete cycles of the bach solo suites at the wigmore hall. In 1998, he was appointed a professor of the cello and chamber music at londons royal academy of music.
Colin carr, cello recordings of instrumental works. Perhaps they will be of interest to folks wanting to learn more about this iconic and fascinating composer at the core of baroque music and a key influence on the classical and romantic waves that followed. Colin carr cello beethoven and schubert more info priority booking only. Best books on bach i grew to become an adept of bach last year and read several books that i loved. Reviews colin carrs lucid, lively bach at boco last night cellist colin carr, offered j. Bach cello suites cello wigmore hall chandos records. For decades, carr has toured and taught bachs six cello suites around the world. Ever since pablo casals recorded them in the 1930s, they have been touchstones of the. Colin carr appears throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. The complete solo cello suites of bach recorded by one of the most extraordinary cellists of his generation, colin carr, winner of the rostropovich international. Album bach solo cello suites live, johann sebastian bach. Apr 26, 2017 colin carr will perform bachs six suites for unaccompanied cello october 21 with refreshments provided during intermissions for this unique threehour concert experience.
One of argentinas great cultural exports, tango buenos aires october 28 sets the stage for romance with its stylized choreography. The welltempered clavier, book 1, bwv 846869 trevor pinnock. Books by edward bach author of the bach flower remedies. Colin carr, cello rockport chamber music festival shalin liu performance center, rockport, massachusetts july 12, 2018. A y colin carr, d s r bach suites u johann sebastian bach. Read about timothy eddys musical upbringing and his thoughts on music and technique. Colin carr may be the finest cellist that youve never heard of. Bach titled the violin collection six solos for violin, without accompaniment, book one, by joh. The suites are by johann sebastian bach, and were popularly launched by pablo casals in the 1930s. Maurice gendron 26 december 1920, near nice 20 august 1990, grezsurloing was a french cellist, conductor and teacher. Anthony arnone school of music college of liberal arts.
Colin was the soloist in elgars cello concerto in a. Come and hear him play some of his favourite pieces in this celebratory performance. Master cellists have followed to take on the musics complexities. Album bach solo cello suites live, johann sebastian. Arnone received his bachelor of music degree from the new england conservatory of music, where he studied with colin carr. I was suffering from an acute bach by gould syndrome the goldberg variations and in particular the slower, more elegiac 1981 studio version quickly became one of my favourite pieces of music. May 30, 2016 the cello is a relative latecomer on the concert platform, having achieved true star status only in the nineteenth century.
Sir john eliot gardiner on beethoven symphonies carnegie hall. In the first two suites, bach uses a pair of minuets. Bach s six cello suites is a remarkable demonstration of intellectual concentration, expressive consistency, and physical control that other cellists may envy. Performers of bachs instrumental works index to recordings. Check out bach cello suites by colin carr on amazon music. Bach solo cello suites live johann sebastian bach by johann sebastian bach download and listen to the album. Jun 18, 20 check out bach cello suites by colin carr on amazon music. Johann sebastian bach, composer colin carr, mainartist c 1998 gm recordings, inc. All of this history was in my head when i drove north on july 12 to hear the british cellist colin carr perform the complete suites at the rockport chamber music festival. Recorded live on may 5, 2012, at wigmore hall, colin carr s recording of j. In celebration of twenty years of inspiring teaching at the academy, visiting professor of cello colin carr shares his refreshing and exhilarating approach to bachs.
Colin carr cello appears throughout the world as a soloist, chamber. Performing regularly throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher, british cellist colin carr is a frequent guest at the worlds leading concert halls and festivals he returned to wigmore hall in may 2012 to record bach s cello suites, true masterworks regarded as the pinnacle of the repertoire for the instrument. Bach transcribed at least one of the suites, suite no. Bach solo cello suites live by colin carr on amazon music. The first suite, in g major, gives the feel of innocent simplicity, and serves as a marvelous opening to these extraordinary works. The wigmore live label released a new recording of the j. Prelude allemande courante sarabande bourree bourree gigue yeardate of composition yd of comp. Thomas demenga talks about his musical upbringing, recording the bach suites, and how being a composer affects his approach to playing other composers music. Edward bachs most popular book is the bach flower remedies. The detailed book of interviews with 14 of the great cello teachers in the us and uk will be due out in the fall of 2020. Chandos records is one of the worlds premier classical music record companies, best known for its ground breaking search for neglected musical gems. Colin carr cello in a programme that promises great things, a leading cellist joins one of the worlds finest ensembles for schuberts visionary masterpiece, preceded by the emerson a celebrated group for more than 40 years playing a late beethoven work on its own. As colin carr played, the light over the water faded.
So, it is quite possible that bach had in mind to write a whole series of solo suites for different instrumentscontinuing with the flute, perhaps, since. The cello suites, his only works for solo cello, were the sequel, book two. Collin carr, bach cello suites colin carr presents a rare musical experience with six suites for unaccompanied cello on saturday, october 21 at 7. Performing regularly throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher, british cellist colin carr is a frequent guest at the worlds leading concert halls and festivals. Bach solo cello suites live by colin carr on amazon. Colin carr was a faculty member at the new england conservatory of music for 16 years. Performing regularly throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. Bachs iconic six unaccompanied cello suites have been called the bible of cello works.
Best books on bach 26 books meet your next favorite book. This is his second recording of the suites, and the product of a lifetime of reflection and work on these seminal pieces. Colin carr and the bach cello suites royal academy of music. I heard the six cello suites in a recent performance featuring six. The final concert in the series is a performance to two of bachs cello suites by renowned cellist, colin carr. Now i must pluck up courage and record all the bach suites mstislav rostropovich. With these dances, bach experimented and created the first, and arguably still the finest, solo works for a relatively new instrument.
He returned to wigmore hall in may 2012 to record bachs cello suites, true masterworks regarded as the pinnacle of the repertoire for the instrument. Edward bach has 42 books on goodreads with 1097 ratings. Bach wrote comically abrupt shifts of register into the cello suites, most drastically in the prelude of suite no. An autograph manuscript of this version exists as bwv 995. Performing regularly throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher, british cellist colin carr is a frequent guest at the worlds leading concert halls and festivals he returned to wigmore hall in may 2012 to record bachs cello suites, true masterworks regarded as the pinnacle of the repertoire for the instrument. Professor john hyman has arranged three concerts this year at queens, one in each term. Jul 16, 2018 bachs six cello suites bwv 10071012 were performed by the superb british cellist colin carr against the dropdead backdrop of the beautiful ocean during a long summer sunset, a few birds and small boats passing by. British cellist colin carr returns to the emerald city music stages to conclude the season with this spotlight performance. He is widely considered one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century.
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