Marc Sabbah - Bach: Suites 1 - 6, played on the viola CD [PRE-ORDER]

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The six suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1007–1012) occupy a singular position within the instrumental canon. At once pedagogical, architectural, and profoundly spiritual, they explore the full polyphonic and rhetorical potential of a single melodic instrument. Their transmission history—preserved only in copies, without an autograph manuscript—already points to a degree of textual openness that has shaped their performance tradition for over two centuries.In this recording, violist Marc Sabbah approaches the cycle not as a transcription in the narrow sense, but as an idiomatic recontextualization. Performing the suites on the viola involves both subtle transpositions and carefully considered adjustments of voice-leading, guided by historical awareness and organological logic.

Suite for Violoncello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
Suite for Violoncello No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009
Suite for Violoncello No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011
Suite for Violoncello No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008
Suite for Violoncello No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010
Suite for Violoncello No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012