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Bach Cello Suites BWV 1009 and BWV 1012

Alexander Kniazev performs JS Bach's Solo Cello Suites No 3 in C and No 6 in D in Tokyo. Presented by Elin Manahan Thomas.

Alexander Kniazev performs Bach's solo Cello Suites No.3 in C major, BWV.1009 and No. 6 in D major, BWV.1012 in a concert recorded in Tokyo earlier this year. The Suites had long been written-off as mere studies and all but disappeared from the cello repertoire until 1890, when legendary cellist Pablo Casals stumbled across them in a sheet music shop in Barcelona. Casals went on to record all six, and to install the works in the canon of Baroque masterpieces. Alexander Kniazev gives two of the Suites - by turns joyful and contemplative.

Presented by Elin Manahan Thomas.

59 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite no. 3 in C major BWV.1009

    Performer: Alexander Kniazev.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite no. 6 in D major BWV.1012

    Performer: Alexander Kniazev.

Broadcast

  • Sun 11 Nov 2018 21:20