Bach, Cello Suite, No,2, Pierre Fournier, Cello

The music and the images were extracted from my lp.

[@jontait2748]

00:17 Prelude 03:38 Allemande 07:00 Courante 09:04 Sarabande 13:17 Menuet I & II 16:29 Gigue

[@dionbaillargeon4899]

The two things I've always loved the most in Founier's playing are his honest, no-nonsense, approach to Bach's suites and his velvety, soft, beautiful and uniform sound. With Founier, there's almost no "straining" when he hits the passages in the upper octaves of the instrument.

[@taichiqu]

바늘이 올려지는 소리까지 들리니 참 좋습니다.

[@jenniferkwon7217]

I am so thankful to find this recording-sounds just like LP. Fournier's cello shouldn't be played through dvd or cd, in my opinion. Thank you!

[@lilychen1339]

Thank you!

[@marcpons5076]

composee au retour de Bach chez lui et apprenant que sa femme etait morte et inhumee durant son absence! peut-on aujourdhui imaginer pareille douleur? Le Prelude est elegiaque aux larmes

[@a.b.c.8816]

With no doubt the best interpretation. I have listened to many cello players, searching for the purity of sound and for quality of recording. Here, I find all the qualities. The other interpretations suffer from hesitations, heaviness in the rapid movement ( see the Courante by Casals for example) or from approximations due to the technical difficulties. But this one presents Bach suite as something very simple, fluid, dynamic.Thank you for the music you put in youtube. I've noticed that your choices are always pertinent and tasteful ( beautiful Mozart string quintet by Trio Grumiaux and co).

[@fourstrings48]

There is no such thing as "the best interpretation." Assuming a reasonable degree of technical proficiency, every version will have its own particular virtues and limitations. Beauty is in the ear of the listener.

[@seberry1]

@@fourstrings48 I totally agree. I would also add --given the comment by A.B.C. -- that Casals was blazing a trail, so it's not quite fair to compare him with other cellists who emerged in Fournier's generation and later. The Casals edition of the suites is a very interesting manuscript to study. The meticulous expressive and performance markings of that edition are insightful and challenging as a roadmap to understand how Casals heard this music that he discovered at age 12 in a Barcelona bookshop. What a consequential browse that was. "Freedom," as Casals would later say, "with order!"

[@2bfrees]

thank for post it.

[@유종옥-q1p]

올려 주셔서 정말 감사합니다.

[@TiticatFollies]

Heaven on earth!

[@navinahire6446]

starts at 0:16

[@thomastaylor3407]

nice go, bud!! but aren't these french accord performances from'59? so, who deleted the applause? i'm curious. and as for using this music for surfing, background for e-mail readings, etc. it trivializes the "listener" but not the music. these recordings i've been looking for for years in the used cd bins. thank you! aptly, edgar degas, who said, "who are these painters who proclaim themselves to have arrived, while i labour for years over an inch?"