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Who Wins? Or who do you like better? Vote and explain your thoughts.

Rostropovich
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Yo Yo Ma
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Author Topic: Battle of the Musicians: Who Wins with Bach Cello Suites (No. 1 Prelude)  (Read 5235 times)

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Re: Battle of the Musicians: Who Wins with Bach Cello Suites (No. 1 Prelude)
« Reply #40 on: November 23, 2014, 08:52:26 AM »
The cello suites are amongst my least favorite of Bach's works so it's hard for me to take my opinion seriously.*

Between Ma and Rostropovich, Rostropovich easily. Of all the ones in this thread so far, Fournier. I admire his Dvorak concerto with Szell too.

I have Casals' and Starker's, and don't care for either. I use Starker's to burn in new headphones with good results  :P.

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Re: Battle of the Musicians: Who Wins with Bach Cello Suites (No. 1 Prelude)
« Reply #41 on: November 23, 2014, 09:47:31 PM »
Try Paul Tortellier's version too .

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Re: Battle of the Musicians: Who Wins with Bach Cello Suites (No. 1 Prelude)
« Reply #42 on: July 07, 2015, 04:55:15 PM »
Awake, zombie thread!  :&

Looks like someone here wanted to emulate this post from classic.fm - http://www.classicfm.com/composers/bach/guides/bachs-cello-suites-where-start/

Anyway, for Bach cello suites, NEVER the likes of Ma or Maisky or Haimowitz - blech! This is NOT romantic music.
On the other hand (and every cellist has two), the baroque period-correct recordings by people like Anner Bylsma (1979; 1992) or Peter Wispelwey (not 1990 but the 1998 version - more info http://www.allmusic.com/album/bach-6-suites-for-cello-solo-2012-recording-mw0002428644) aren't for everyone (also Sigiswald Kuijken, etc - see http://jsbach.org/1011.html)

There are very high quality recordings also by Steven Isserlis, Maurice Gendron, but my current favorite is Heinrich Schiff.
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Re: Battle of the Musicians: Who Wins with Bach Cello Suites (No. 1 Prelude)
« Reply #43 on: July 07, 2015, 05:26:05 PM »
Quote from: 1melomaniac on July 07, 2015, 04:55:15 PM
This is NOT romantic music.

My thoughts exactly!

I want to hurl every time I hear Itzhak Perlman play Mozart, which is thankfully a rare occasion.
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Re: Battle of the Musicians: Who Wins with Bach Cello Suites (No. 1 Prelude)
« Reply #44 on: July 07, 2015, 05:37:47 PM »
Tortelier, what else ?
And bach @ violin = Kremer. Period.

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Re: Battle of the Musicians: Who Wins with Bach Cello Suites (No. 1 Prelude)
« Reply #45 on: July 15, 2015, 04:49:43 AM »
One more vote for Fournier - the 1997 dual cd set is a gem.
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