Bjorg Lewis - Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites

Muzyka Barokowa
premiera polska: 2019-03-04
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Editor's Info:
The six cello suites on this recording have their parallel in six sonatas for solo violin, also from Bach’s time in Köthen, before he moved to Leipzig. On the title page of the violin sonatas the composer wrote Libro primo (First Book). The original manuscript of the cello suites has vanished, but both wife Anna Magdalena and others left copies. Did the composer perhaps call the cello suites Second Book?

Traditional dance forms are the bones of the suites as they are in other suites by Bach and other Baroque composers. But this is not music for a palace ball. The dance tradition serves as the basis for an unrelenting elaboration and exploration of contours, sounds and rhythms.


Bjørg Lewis is one of Norway’s most sought-after and admired cellists. She has been a soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with Mariss Jansons conducting, as well as performing with orchestras throughout Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Baltics. She has collaborated with musicians such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Elisabeth Batiashvilli, Truls Mørk, Steven Isserlis, Håkan Hardenberger, Martin Frost and Lawrence Power. Most recently Bjørg has been invited to play with the Nash Ensemble and has also performed with Antje Weithaas and Aleksandar Madžar as part of the Leeds International Chamber Season’s 2016 tribute to the Sonata.

Bjørg is a founding member of the Vertavo String Quartet, an internationally acclaimed ensemble, which is the recipient of numerous awards, including Norway’s prestigious Grieg Prize in 2005. A busy performance schedule takes Bjørg throughout Europe, North America and Japan. She has made her home in the UK for the past fourteen years and has performed at the festivals in Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Bath and Cheltenham, as well as regularly playing at Wigmore Hall.

Bjørg is an accomplished curator of music festivals. From 2001 to 2015 she was Artistic Director of the Elverum Festival in Norway and in 2009 with her husband Paul Lewis, she started Midsummer Music, an annual chamber music festival held in the Chilterns. Vertavo Quartet started its own festival in Norway, which launched in September 2016.

The Dextra Musica Foundation has generously provided her with a Gennaro Gagliano cello of 1748, previously played by Martin Lovett of the Amadeus Quartet.

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Bjørg Lewis - Cello

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1. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 I. Prélude 3:02
2. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 II. Allemande 3:16
3. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 III. Courante 2:46
4. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 IV. Sarabande 4:10
5. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 V. Bourrée I – Bourrée II 3:32
6. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 VI. Gigue 3:12
7. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 I. Prélude 3:32
8. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 II. Allemande 2:41
9. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 III. Courante 1:53
10. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 IV. Sarabande 4:40
11. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 V. Menuet I – Menuet II 3:06
12. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 VI. Gigue 2:29
13. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 I. Prélude 5:50
14. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 II. Allemande 5:21
15. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 III. Courante 2:02
16. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 IV. Sarabande 3:53
17. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 V. Gavotte I – Gavotte II 4:50
18. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 VI. Gigue 2:26

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