JS Bach
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COMPOSERS: JS Bach
LABELS: Archiv
ALBUM TITLE: Cello Suites
PERFORMER: Pierre Fournier (cello)
CATALOGUE NO: 477 6724
Fournier’s rendition of the Cello Suites displays more aristocratic, more ‘refined’ playing than Casals’s, but it’s equally dedicated. It’s also recorded with a fullness of tone which still makes the instrument sound almost alarmingly present.
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.