Great Performers
+Bach
Jean-Guihen Queyras violoncello
Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-1991)
Partita for Solo Cello, Op. 31 «To the Memory of Friedrich Schiller» (1955) *
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012 (1717-23)
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 (1915)
* Premiere in España
Concert without intermission
Bach Looking into the Future
At the 2022 Festival, Canadian Jean-Guihen Queyras performed Bach's odd-numbered cello suites in an unforgettable matinee, which he preluded with aphoristic pieces by György Kurtág. Now the superb German musician returns to an evening performance with the most complex and extensive of his suites, the Sixth, actually composed for a five-string piccolo cello, which becomes complicated when using a conventional instrument. And, as it happened then, he orientates Bach's music towards the future of the cello, this time with two pieces from the 20th century. One, that by Kodály, also quite well known and widely distributed; the other, premiered in Spain, is by an important Turkish composer, who studied at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and who is considered, among other things, to be the author of the first Turkish opera in history.
