Bach: The 6 Suites for Cello Solo — Comparison Summary

Media review — Bach: The 6 Suites for Cello Solo, BWV 1007 – 1012 — Comparison Summary, Artist and Media Information. 24 artists / 26 complete recordings, from historic to HIP: Casals (1936–1939), Fournier (1961), Bylsma (1979), Rostropovich (1991), Bylsma (1992), ter Linden (1996), Paternoster (1998), Wispelwey (1998), Pandolfo (2000, viola da gamba), Isserlis (2005), Queyras (2007), Gaillard (2010), Wispelwey (2012), Enders (2012/2013), Watkin (2013), Demenga (2014), Dumas (2016), Kashkashian (2017, viola), Malov (2018, violoncello da spalla), Bertrand (2019), Teichmanis (2019), Kloeckner (2020), Rignol (2020), Skalka (2020), Philippe (2021), de Naverán (2021)
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DVD — Mahler: Symphony No.8 — Riccardo Chailly / LFO

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No.8 in E♭ major (“Symphony of a Thousand”) — Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Lucerne Festival 2016, Opening Concert in the KKL); with Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tölzer Knabenchor. Blu-ray disk, received for reviewing.

Schumann: Cello Concerto (Diary 2016-05-03)

Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, op.129, in the new recording with Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, compared to legacy recordings with Gregor Piatigorsky & Sir John Babirolli / London Philharmonic Orchestra (1934) and Mstislav Rostropovich & Gennadi Rozhdestvensky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (1961)

Schumann: Violin Concerto (Diary 2016-05-01)

Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor (WoO 1 [H/K WoO 23]), in the new recording with Isabelle Faust and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, compared to a recording with Christian Tetzlaff and Paavo Järvi / RSO Frankfurt