JS Bach: Solo Cello Suites
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COMPOSERS: JS Bach
LABELS: Hungaroton
ALBUM TITLE: JS Bach
WORKS: Solo Cello Suites
PERFORMER: Miklós Perényi (cello)
CATALOGUE NO: HDVD 32421
Perényi plays this wonderful austere music in an empty concert hall, unused cellos resting on chairs, while he sits on a small wooden dais. Playing is withdrawn; I felt like an intruder. Michael Tanner
Authors
Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.