Bach - Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor BWV 1008, complete; Eva Lymenstull | Voices of Music 4K
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- The Suite in D Minor, complete, performed on an original baroque cello by the amazing Eva Lymenstull. Eva is the winner of the 2017 Voices of Music International Bach Competition.
Ms. Lymenstull plays an original, anonymous English cello ca. 1730, restored by Guust Francois in Amsterdam. Baroque bow by Kees van Hemert, the Hague, the Netherlands.
In his cello suites, Bach creates the perfect blend of five musical senses: individual expression, technique, counterpoint, rhythm and harmony; the music has been endlessly adapted and arranged, and every cellist studies these compositions at different points in their lives.
Much has been written about the suites, yet little is known. It seems likely that the music was composed by Bach in his usual grouping of a set of six around the year 1720, when Bach was Kapellmeister at Köthen. The date is really just a guess, based partly on the style of the music as well as the fact that we do have a date-1720-for the autograph copy of the violin sonatas. We are fortunate indeed to have the copy of the music written down by Bach’s wife, Anna Magdalena, as well as an autograph version of one of the suites in an arrangement for lute in Bach’s own handwriting.
According to legend, the suites were unknown until the cellist Pablo Casals discovered them in a thrift store in Barcelona at the age of thirteen; the legend does not explain how the music could be completely unknown even if it was readily available in several printed editions. As is the case with the Brandenburg concertos, highly embellished histories of many of Bach’s works appear in the 1930s coinciding with the marketing of recordings and concert tours; invariably, these stories take the form of a “rescue,” in which masterpieces are first overlooked and then saved from perpetual obscurity owing to an improbable series of events. Such stories have made good liner notes for decades: a more balanced view is that many of Bach’s works were continuously performed and studied after the composer’s death; for example, the Well Tempered Clavier influenced generations of composers.
The performance history and transmission of manuscripts for the cello suites begins with one of Bach’s favorite students, the composer and organist Johann Christian Kittel; Kittel was devoted to Bach’s musical style and shared Bach’s works with his own students, including the virtuoso cellist and composer Johann Friedrich Dotzauer. The other major historical figure is one Johann Peter Kellner, who copied many of Bach’s works in the late 1720s. Anna Magdalena and Kellner provide the two contemporaneous sources for the suites that survive to the present day. Kittel’s student, Dotzauer, may have been working from one of these copies or a later copy when he began the study of the works, and by 1826 demand for the music of Bach as well as for works for the cello in general had grown to the point where the suites were published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1826. Even though Dotzauer could trace his musical style directly back to Bach, by the 1820s-one hundred years after Bach composed the suites-performers were more interested in adapting the music to the style and taste of the time as opposed to recreating a performance from the time of Bach, and Dotzauer’s influential version had the effect of obscuring the two primary sources of the music until the 1960s.
Tracing the “thrift store” copy, we see that Dotzauer’s version was most likely passed down to his student, Karl Dreschler, and thence to Dreschler’s student, Friedrich Wilhelm Grützmacher who “edited” the copy found by Casals, bringing the suites into the 20th century complete with a turgid layer of markings, additional chords, and ornamentation reminiscent of the silent movie era. In addition to being an outstanding cellist, Grützmacher arranged and re-arranged a number of important historical works including Boccherini’s Cello Concerto in B flat Major: Grützmacher’s work fits the pattern in which composers throughout the 19th century adapted the works of Bach, Handel, Boccherini and many others for contemporaneous audiences, often adding their own musical material.
The Bach cello suites became a permanent part of the Early Music revival in the 1960s when the Musical Heritage Society contracted Nikolaus Harnoncourt to record the set. A decade after Harnoncourt, players began to perform the suites using historical techniques in earnest, with notable recordings by Anner Bylsma and Sigiswald Kuijken.
Voices of Music will film all six suites using our innovative 4K, ultra-high definition video process. The videos will be part of our digital library and will be free for anyone to view, anywhere in the world.
Prelude 0:00
Allemande 4:00
Courante 7:17
Sarabande 9:21
Menuet 13:30
Gigue 16:54
-David Tayler
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Prelude 0:00 ❄ Allemande 4:00 ❄ Courante 7:17 ❄ Sarabande 9:21 ❄ Menuet 13:30 ❄ Gigue 16:54
I’ve been listening to this once, sometimes twice daily for the past few weeks.
What a wonderful interpretation of Bach. Her ornamentation choices are dazzling without being overpowering, string crossings are super clean, and her intonation is flawless!
And let’s not forget her attention to rhythm, either. A trap I fall into with my playing happens when I fall in love with certain notes too much and hold them for excessive emphasis, especially on the gorgeous rolling chords. But these pieces are *dances* first and foremost, and they have got to *move*!
I know her interpretation is spot on because listening to this, I feel like dancing. And I don’t even like dancing!
I especially love hearing this on a proper Baroque cello with gut strings. Also kudos to the camera, audio, and editing crew. Superb show from everyone involved, bravissimo! ❤
Her style. It's always such bliss noticing and enjoying how different cellists play the same pieces and her style is my favourite in this piece
This performance is something out of this world. Sound quality is insane too.
.an amateur horn player here, I play this piece on my horn and was looking to solve some accentuation in Sarabande and Minuet but I find myself playing this video again and again... Phenomenal musicianship!!!
This is exceptionally fine cello playing...musicianship of the highest order.
Thanks so much!
Voices of Music No problem. Thank you for posting.
My compliments to Eva! I've cherished these suites for more than 40 years now. It's good to see younger generations raising the level of playing and musical understanding. Wonderful job done, looking forward to hear the others suites performed so freshly.
as a music student, i just can say that i´m so much inspired by thinking she was student in the past, and now she is that free to give us that expression of her heart
Wonderful playing, all respects to other players and recordings, but, that performance just shone. Thank you.
I love everything about this recording. The playing is brilliant. The sound of this cello is sonorous but clear and sumptuous. The recording is magnificent. I have a stupid amount of recordings of these pieces, and this rates with the best of them for musicianship and sound quality. I'm just mesmerized by the sound quality of this instrument and the playing. Brava, first rate, as usual.
Happy Birthday J.S...
Many thanks!
Spiritual balm. Encourages introspection. It's no wonder Tarkovsky chose Bach's music so often.
One of best Interpretations of my favorite Suites! ❤ Thank You ❤
Magnifique. Technicité, son, maîtrise du phrasé et compréhension de l'harmonie sous-jacente... Magistral !
Amazing, one of the best version of the Suite 2 ever. I'm in love. Thank you !
I mean... I've listened to Mischa Maisky because he is good, but this girl.... come on! Bach would be proud of her!
Very warm and deep emotions...🖤😔
Absolutely wonderful. It's my dream to watch you guys live one day.
Heartbraking and beautiful.
Sencillamente maravillosa cellista,articulaciòn y tempo perfectos!!
What a lovely recording!
Magnificent playing, outstanding musicianship, superb recording. Thank you.
so ethereal and deep, thank you for this wonderful display of pure art ♥️
Sublime!! Greetings from Italy 👍
thanks for the video! One of the best performances I've ever heard.
I keep listening to this. Thank you.
Loved it! 😍
Mesmerizingly beautiful!
I am stonish. The execution was better than Antonio Menezes, for my taste, I thought bee impossible. Congratillation and thank you.!!!
Fantastique ! on écoute cette interprétation avec un bonheur total ; les "baroqueux" nous on tout de même bien fait progresser dans celle de la musique de BACH ; je m'interroge cependant sur ce qui concerne la pique instruite au 19ème siècle par rapport à la résonance du violoncelle libérée des genoux de l'artiste ,et même du choix des cordes filées sur boyaux comme ici par opposition à l'acier .
Impressive! Thank you for this amazing demonstration of talent.
absolutely beautiful!!
love how she owns the cello
That's a really, really, really great rendition of the piece...
Eva you sound amazing!! What a stellar interpretation!!
A superb performance, beautifully played, with convincingly Baroque articulation that never sounds mannered.
I have heard so many versions of Bach cello suites. This period performance ranks up there with the very best. There is a kind of free flowing quality when played with the Baroque bow, combined with your amazing talents. Can we have all six please?
We will film some more!
@@VoicesofMusic still waiting...
Bellísimo.
* AMAZING * BRAVO
Bravíssimo!!!!❤️
Outstanding!
Can't wait to hear the other 5
Beautiful.
"Emouvent!" Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962
Bravíssimo 💕
Magnifica esecuzione !
Fabulous!
Hermosa interpretación!! Mueve los afectos.
Excellent
Tão maravilhoso! ❤️❤️❤️
Одно из самых лучших исполнений, которое я когда-либо слышал! Спасибо.
I love cello.
Love it!
Congratulations friend, excepcional interpretation
Wow, beautiful tone
Excellent!
* AMAZING *
Great performance.
Lovely
Das ist sehr Schön 🤩
Exceptional Performance ! Thanks
Our pleasure.
Eccellente !
Brava!! :D wow
Respect!
Brava!
Maravilha!
perfect.
Meraviglioso
How much is your recording gear worth? What stuff do you use? I'm stunned by every single video you release.
Pianicimo Miusic Amor ❤
Which strings do you use on violin and is it able to use on modern violin
Oh Yes.....
Bravo, lovely. DO you always use this low tuning for playing on period instrument?
Sometimes...sometimes a high tuning for Venetian music or an even lower pitch. We use A=370, 415, 440, 466
@@VoicesofMusic Thank you for your reply! I must say the 415Hz. matched this suite well.
Inspiració, Sublimitat, Déu, BACH.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
13:51 CRISP
Very beautiful playing!
Also very nice video recording. Can I ask what equipments is used for making this video production? Type of camera’s and microphones.
Hi Marcus, the Cameras were Lumix GH5, G85 and Sony ax100 and ax700. Microphones were Sennheiser MKH40, MKH800, Schoeps MK21 MK2H MK41 and two ribbon mics of our design. The Lumix G85 is a very good inexpensive choice, image is more or less the same as the GH5.
Having said that, most of the sound comes from Eva and her cello :)
@@VoicesofMusic thank you very much!
@@VoicesofMusic yes, she plays amazing!
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The music flows, indeed, from her magic hands and warm heart.
Congrats from Brazil.
Amazing.
I'm just a guy who likes good music. What is the piano like instrument behind her called?
It's an Italian harpsichord, a copy of the original by Bartolomeo Cristofori (who also invented the piano).
Beautiful ! TIMES BETTER than Bylsma
you are all wonderful. if i could i donate all of my life.
Is it just me or are all the notes one half or whole step lower?
Its boroque tunning
oohhhh, so juicy. amazing performance.
大提琴下面是不是没有站脚？她是用腿夹住的？
No endpin--it is the baroque style.
Dam if it ain't baroque to fix it
Beautiful.
Thank you! Cheers!