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(…) Since, I have spent a fair bit of time coaching cellists, both modern and baroque alike, and found myself playing along to demonstrate various points I gradually could feel these pieces joining the violin partitas and sonatas as another kind of ‘daily bread’; I started catching myself playing some of the movements I particularly loved while warming up, and realising that it was actually possible to play them on the violin, and to find a special expressive vocabulary at the higher pitch. How could one possibly justify it, especially with works that have peppered the recording catalogue with some of the most iconic and adored string performances of all time, the Casals, Fourniers, Torteliers or Starkers? But what I was doing also seemed very much in keeping with Bach’s own habit of recycling his compositions for different instruments and different uses. The examples are endless but I immediately think of the concertos appearing as sinfonias in cantatas, or concertos for violins turned into harpsichord concertos. The more I reflect, the less I feel the need to be defensive because Bach did far more outrageous things! Think of the Prelude of the E major Partita for violin turned into a full orchestral cantata movement with trumpets and drums…
– Rachel Podger (excerpt from liner notes)
Additional information
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Recording format | DSD 256 |
Mastering equiment | Amplifier: Classe 5200, Cables: Van den Hul (exclusive use of Van den Hul cables) |
Mastering engineer | Jared Sacks |
Editing | Jared Sacks |
Cables | Van den Hul |
Mixing console | Rens Heijnis, custom design |
Microphones | Bruel & Kjaer 4006, Schoeps |
Recording notes | <p>Rachel would like to thank Warren Day, Peter and Olwen Roberts, John and Jane Neville, and Anthony and Jo Diamond for their support.</p> |
Analog to digital converter | DSD Super Audio / Merging Technologies Horus 256FS |
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Recording date | 2018 |
Recording location | The Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London |
Recording engineer | Jared Sacks |
Production | Jonathan Freeman-Attwood |
Type | DSD 256 fs, DSD 128 fs, DSD 64 fs, DXD 24 Bit, FLAC 192 kHz, FLAC 96 kHz, FLAC 44.1 kHz, MP3 44.1 kHz |
Format | Download (Stereo), Download (Multichannel), Download (Stereo + Multichannel) |
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Speakers | Grimm LS1 |
Press reviews
The Guardian
The Guardian Top 10 Best Classical CDs of the Year 2019!
“Solo artists impressed and smaller labels triumphed (…) Violinist Podger makes Bach’s suites sound as if they were written for her instrument, such is her buoyancy and agility”
Klassik.com
(…) Ihre stilistische Klasse beweist sie auch hier, technisch makellos, mit wunderbarer Geläufigkeit und wachem Sinn für ausgreifende Linien genauso wie für den Rang der immanenten Mehrstimmigkeit. Podger gestaltet in insgesamt frischen, die Stärken der wendigen Violine betonenden Tempi fein definierte Satzcharaktere. Sie tut das mit Leidenschaft und Überzeugung. Und deshalb: Ja, es werden auf diese Weise tatsächlich gültige Geigensuiten. (…)
Luister
Dat Podger met Bach kan lezen en schrijven weten we al van haar inmiddels twee volledige opnamen van de Sonates en Partita’s voor viool solo. Ook de cellosuites zijn voor haar gesneden koek. (…) een dubbel-cd die de Bach-liefhebber veel interessante inzichten biedt.
Stereophile
(…) when it comes to joy – and few composers can express joy with Bach’s unfettered directness – Podgers reveals an entirely new and utterly delightful dimension.
ResMusica
(…) La violoniste Rachel Podger frappée pa rune idée de genie. (…)
Klassieke Zaken
Podger sublimeert de melancholieke en sonore zwaarte van de cello tot sprankelende uitbundigheid en laat horen dat ook Bachs cellomuziek voor velerlei uitleg vatbaar blijkt. (…)
Crescendo Mag (BE)
(…) En résumé, une production quelque peu exotique mais très intéressante, servie par une personnalité dont chaque proposition est le résultat d’une étude approfondie et révèle également une totale excellence sur le plan artistique. (…)
Tribune de Genève
(…) sa relecture garde une puissance autoporteuse; elle parvient très vite à conquérir les pavillons du mélomane par l’élégance des phrasés dans les passages lents, par la virtuosité dans les danses et par la qualité de la captation. Voilà qui donne de la pertinence à cette aventure plutôt osée. (…)
Diapason
L’acoustique très sobre permet d’entendre avec précision chaque coup d’archet, chaque prasé. (…) Lentes,effilées, amères souvent, ce sont les sommets d’une relecture paradoxale à bien des égards, qui fourmille de détails inattendus, et tient pourtant de l’épure. (…)
Classica
(…) Rachel Podger se montre parfaitement recevable – le violon étant historiquement l’instrument de la danse. (…)
HRAudio.net
Rachel Podger has been described as the Casals of her time so it is not surprising that, having committed superb performances of Bach’s sonatas, partitas, violin concertos and much more to disc, she should turn her attention to the cello suites, and few would argue that the results of her efforts in transcribing these works for the violin is anything other than a triumphant success. (…) thanks to the superb efforts of Producer Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Recording engineer Jared Sacks, one’s listening room is transformed into that venue whose fine acoustic wonderfully enhances the sound of the violinist’s 1739 Pesarinius violin to glorious effect. (…)
Bach Magazin
(…) tänzerischen Leichtigkeit ihres Spiels, mühelos wirkenden Akkordbrechungen, entspannten Fluss ihrer Melodiegestaltung (…)
MusicWeb International
(…) with Rachel Podger’s persuasive musicality it doesn’t take too long for the mind to adjust.
BBC Music Magazine [Recording of the Month, July 2019]
Double 5-Star review for Rachel Podger’s Bach Cello Suites, in the July 2019 issue!
“A breathtaking interpretation of Bach’s Cello Suites. A spellbinding set that is arguably Podger’s finest recorded achievement to date.”
Gramophone
Like Leonhardt and Kim Kashkashian before her, Podger adopts the Suites with bravura and the confidence that while their nature may change, their stature will not be diminished. (…) Freest in form, the Preludes undergo the happiest transformations – taken up the octave, the Prelude to the Sixth sounds more than ever like a shanty – whereas the sarabandes demand all of Podger’s bow control and even then their essential gravity is necessarily modulated with the smile of a more flowing pulse. (…)
Het Parool
Cellosuite op viool: grandioos (…) die lichte timbre-karakteristiek geeft de stukken opeens iets heel mooi zwevends; alsof de muziek is ontstegen aan het aardse . (…)
Opus Klassiek [CD van de Maand]
(…) dit is wellicht het mooiste cadeau dat luisterende en vioolspelende Bachliefhebbers zich kunnen wensen. (…) Het klinkende resultaat is niet alleen verrassend, het is meespelepend, wonderbaarlijk en intrigerend. Niet alleen door de manier waarop ze haar ontdekkingen laat klinken, maar vooral door het nieuwe inzicht dat ze deze noten meegeeft. Een topvioliste met het creatieve brein van een componist.
The Guardian [CD of the Week]
(…) Violinist Podger makes Bach’s suites sound as if they were written for her instrument, such is her buoyancy and agility. (…) Isn’t Rachel Podger a violinist? What’s she doing recording Bach’s Cello Suites? That’s the question if you see the cover before you hear this album. But do those things in reverse order, you might instead ask why you’ve never heard this Bach violin music before.
Artalinna – Le Disque du Jour
(…) Elle en fait son miel, rendant non seulement l’expérience passionnante mais révélatrice de toute une part des six Suites : tout ce qui doit y danser fuse ici avec une prestance plus affirmée encore, le défi est donc plutôt du côté des pièces méditatives (…) tout est porté par une grâce solaire, et les textes si éloquents des six Suites semblent voler sous cet archet diseur, merveille dont vous ne pourrez vous déprendre.
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