Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6 | List Price: $32.98
Discount Price: $22.95
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Binding: Audio CD
Release Date: 1995-06-13
Dullsville! [Posted on 2007-06-01]
I love the cover of this record, though. Reminds me of Don Quixote trying to play the cello standing up, like Woody Allen in a marching band! Slow and flat, with no dance or swing to it. Obviously there's a reason he never recorded them till he was past it (just as there's a reason they weren't played for 150 years). The suites are obscure and intimate, and there was little use for them before recording. Casals played them daily, to "consecrate the house" and found the special music in them. Some good Rostropovich is the Beethoven cello sonatas with Richter, but for Bach you should get Casals (1), Fournier (2), (or Starker or the earlier Ma if you find them on sale.)
A Master At One With His Instrument [Posted on 2007-07-26]
This is a wonderful recording - Rostropovich delivers a soulful and meticulous rendition of the 6 Bach Cello Suites. This really is exemplary playing and thrilling to listen to. The music carries you right away! The quality of the recording is superb. I highly recommend this - it's a "must have" in any classical music collection.
One of the pinnacles of Western classical music, played by a master [Posted on 2008-09-07]
It is difficult to know what to add to the many useful and intelligent reviews already posted on Amazon, but anyone who owns this recording feels the compulsion to share his enthusiasm with other music lovers. While other cellists - particulalry Casals and Fournier - have made indispensable records of their interpretation of these sublime suites, only this one offers everything you would require in a performance: full, deep recorded sound with the slight resonance and aura around it which the Burgundian gothic cathedral of Vezelay provided (Slava chose this venue particularly for its rich acoustic); flawless playing by perhaps the greatest cellist ever; wonderfully illuminating notes which both enhance your understanding of the music and also of how Rostropovich finally felt ready to record his interpretation; in short, the finest possible account of these transcendent, spirituallly profound masterworks. Anyone who seeks repose, truth and beauty in this troubled world needs to own this set; it will repay you with inexhaustible listening pleasure.
Mismarketed [Posted on 2008-10-18]
I bought this thinking it was actually something else. My mistake and I haven't enjoyed it even though I am a huge fan of Bach.
Rostropovich at his finest. [Posted on 2008-10-29]
This rendition of Bach's cello suites is by far the best I have ever heard. The sound quality is so clear his fingers can be heard sliding on the strings and an occasional breath before a passage. The acoustics of the instrument are so perfectly recorded it would not sound any different live!
Also all suites 1-6 are flawless. As usual Rostropovich pulls off all 42 movements with laser guided precision and OCD accuracy.
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