LDV115-6

After Johann Sebastian Bach’s death, his set of Solo Cello Suites was more or less forgotten and its importance underestimated throughout the nineteenth century. The six suites were too austere for the time, running counter to the Romantic aesthetic. And yet it is in this Classical universe with its strict rules that the greatest expressive freedom flourishes! It was not until Pablo Casals (1876-1973) and his ‘discovery’ of the Suites in 1890 that the cycle enjoyed a renaissance in concert performance.