BACH: 6 Cello Suites / Bruno Cocset 2CD

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
• Audio CD (October 13, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Alpha Productions
• ASIN: B0000UYNG2
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,757,368 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

6 Cello Suites

Bruno Cocset

For some reason unknown to us, the 1717-1723, which Bach spent as Kapellmeister at Göthen court, witnessed the birth of a whole series of major instrumental works. Today these works are etched in our memories forever. And for the musician, playing these works represents a unique and lone adventure, like climbing Everest or running a marathon. With same exhilaration, sense of achievement and emotional reward. Beautifully packaged with extensive liner notes, Alpha Productions and Bruno Cocset deliver that same exhilaration and achievement.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The music and its sound, December 1, 2008

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Arbos (Lisbon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BACH: 6 Cello Suites / Bruno Cocset 2CD (Audio CD)

I was lookin'4 a very personal vision of t 6suites. My references were both Bylsma records, but t last one has more than 15y (a beautiful dark sound music with a 1701 Stradivarius Servais), and i wanted somethin' new. i was tempted to buy t Queyras performance (high rigorous without loosin' t beauty) and i had brought t 2nd Pandolfo with a viola da gamba (one of t most amazing records i own). So t new cello version should be undoubted/ special.
And it is. Very intimate and absolut/ amazing. For each suite we have a different cello. For each mood we've a diferent sound. It's the only record that i remember having a text of the cello maker (which means a lot in a work where the instrument has this weight).
I don't pretend to advise no1 to buy this record, cos t 6suites have so many wonderful and diferent records. Nevertless t Bruno Cocset version's a standard. This music will sound like t 1st time it sound to us and at t same time it's so close to t memory of music that we know.
What is wonderful in t sound of this record is that we listen to t music as it is played. We listen to its movement and its scale, something that we can only capture in a single instrument play.
My best version of the 6suites at the moment.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent performance, February 5, 2008

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Mary Crossman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BACH: 6 Cello Suites / Bruno Cocset 2CD (Audio CD)

I think it is great when you can hear the breathing and finger clacking of the player. If they are excellent, those extra noises will not matter and might make the performance even better. It sounds really earthy that way to me. My cello professor breathes loud when he plays, but it has never bothered me. With scholarly cello players like these, you can just hear how well they have planned out how they will play the suite. I really like the Prelude of the CM Suite when he works his way into the pedal point and pauses at that bottom of the two where the octave is played. I think this CD has a lot of character and I wish I owned one! Sell me yours if you don't like the clacking fingers. Anyone complaining about clacking fingers is missing all the other stuff going on.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bruno Cocset and Bach, August 25, 2007

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William Jurgenson (Lauffen am Neckar, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BACH: 6 Cello Suites / Bruno Cocset 2CD (Audio CD)

For me, this is the definitive recording! who cares about the miking? Here these pieces in concert. Hear Kuiken or Anner Blysma live. Hear the fingers, the breathing, the players expressing himself, see Kuiken's sweat dripping on the fingerboard in summery hot Bruges while Wieland unlocks new worlds ...
It is the music, the cello playing itself that counts and Cocset is simply other worldly. I say this as a cellist and luthier with experience in particular with the baroque cello.
The period cello is not an excuse and the playing needs none.