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Stoke Newington Early Music Festival: Baroque Cello Jonathan Rees Darkness & Light, Crucifixion & Resurrection, Despair & Joy
Jonathan Rees plays J.S. Bach’s C minor and D major suites on four-string and five-string cellos.
Part of the Stoke Newington Early Music Festival 2017
Add to my Calendar 16-07-2017 15:30 16-07-2017 17:30 36 Stoke Newington Early Music Festival: Baroque Cello Jonathan Rees Darkness & Light, Crucifixion & Resurrection, Despair & Joy The last two suites in his set of six for solo cello, J.S. Bach explores the great expressive potential of altering the cello from its normal 4-string tuning. Writen for a cello with the a string tuned down a tone, the dark sonorities and tortured chromatic language of the fifth cello suite in c minor evoke the desolation of Bach's St John and Matthew Passions. By contrast, the sixth suite, written for a five-string cello with a top e string, is a transcendent expression of light and joy which displays the most florid, improvisatory writing to be found in any of the solo suites for cello. The Old Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
The Old Church
Clissold Park
Stoke Newington
London
N16 0JR
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite no.5 in C minor, BWV 1011
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite no.6 in D major, BWV 1012
Performers
Jonathan Rees – cello
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Programme Note
The last two suites in his set of six for solo cello, J.S. Bach explores the great expressive potential of altering the cello from its normal 4-string tuning. Writen for a cello with the a string tuned down a tone, the dark sonorities and tortured chromatic language of the fifth cello suite in c minor evoke the desolation of Bach's St John and Matthew Passions. By contrast, the sixth suite, written for a five-string cello with a top e string, is a transcendent expression of light and joy which displays the most florid, improvisatory writing to be found in any of the solo suites for cello.
