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Background:

• Composed between 1717 and 1723, when he served as Kapellmeister in Kothen.
• As usual in a Baroque musical suite, after the prelude, all other movements are based around baroque dances.
• Structured in six movements each: allemande, courante, sarabande, two minuets or bourrees or gavottes, and a final gigue.

Recordings:

• 6 Suites a Violoncello Solo senza Basso.
  Giuliano Carmignola (violin).
  Arcana.
  Gramophone Magazine (2022): Editor’s Choice.
  International Classical Music Awards (2023): Nominated Baroque Instrumental.

• Cello Suites.
  Rachel Podger (violin).
  Channel Classics.
  BBC Music Magazine (2019): Recording of the Month.
  Diapason d’Or (2019): Nouveaute.
  Presto Recording of the Week (2019).
  Presto Recordings of the Year (2019): Finalist.
  The Guardian Classical Music Albums of the Year (2019).

• 6 Suites for Cello Solo.
  Pieter Wispelwey.
  Evil Penguin.
  Presto Recording of the Week (2012).

• Complete Cello Suites (The 2023 Sessions).
  Jean-Guihen Queyras
  Harmonia Mundi.
  Gramophone Magazine (2024): Editor’s Choice.
  Presto Recordings of the Year (2024): Winner.
  Gramophone Awards (2025): Finalist Instrumental.
  International Classical Music Awards (2025): Nominated Baroque Instrumental.

• The Cello Suites.
  Steven Isserlis.
  Hyperion.
  BBC Music Magazine (2007): Disc of the Month.
  Gramophone Awards (2007): Winner Instrumental.
  Gramophone Music Magazine (2007): Editor’s Choice.
  Radio 3 Record Review (2007): Critics Disc of the Year.
  Radio 3 Record Review (2007): Listeners’ Disc of the Year.
  BBC Music Magazine Awards (2008): Instrumentalist Finalist.

• BACH.
  Anastasia Kobekina.
  Sony.
  International Classical Music Magazine (2026): Nominated Baroque Instrumental.

• Six Evolutions, Cello Suites.
  Yo-Yo Ma.
• Sony.
  Gramophone Magazine (2018): Editor’s Choice.
  Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year (2018): Nominated Instrumental.
  Presto Recording of the Week(2018).
  Presto Recordings of the Year (2018): Finalist.

• Cello Suites.
  David Watkin.
  Resonus Classics.
  Gramophone Awards (2015): Winner Baroque Instrumental.
  Gramophone Magazine (2015): Editor’s Choice.
  Presto Recordings of the Year (2015): Finalist.
  BBC Music Magazine Awards (2016): Winner Instrumental.
  Radio 3 Building a Library (2026): Top Choice.

• Bach.
  Alisa Weilerstein.
  Pentatone
  Gramophone Music Magazine (2020): Critics’ Choice.
  Gramophone Awards (2021): Shortlisted Instrumental.

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