Upcoming performances
Recordings worth hearing
Pablo Casals
HistoricalEMI / Warner · 1939
The recording that turned these suites from studies into concert music. It sounds free, even wilful, by today's standards, and every version since descends from it.
Jean-Guihen Queyras
ModernHarmonia Mundi · 2007
Queyras plays the complete cycle in Shanghai this season. His recording uses a lighter bow and near-dance tempi, returning the suites to the dances they are rather than six monuments.
Anner Bylsma
Period instrumentsSony Vivarte · 1992
Baroque cello and gut strings. Far less bass resonance, so the gaps between voices open up and you hear the harmony Bach implies with a single line.
More by Bach
- Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043Nov 28, 2026
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book IIDec 2, 2026
- Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008Dec 4, 2026
- Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009Dec 4, 2026
- Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010Dec 4, 2026
- Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011Dec 4, 2026
- Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012Dec 4, 2026
- Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004Dec 5, 2026
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