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On this episode, Simon sits down with cellist Dr. Jacques Lee Wood to focus on J. S. Bach’s Cello Sui
tes. It is a fascinating dialogue specializing in the significance of high quality of voice, dynamics, Baroque type versus a flatter fashionable type of taking part in, and far, rather more.
J. S. Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello have been doubtless written round the identical time he wrote his sonatas and partitas for the unaccompanied violin. Nevertheless, no manuscript exists in Bach’s personal hand so many particulars about the suites come from numerous manuscripts, together with one necessary manuscript by his spouse, Anna Magdalena. On this episode Jacques walks by means of passages from a number of of the suites, particularly Suite no. 1 (in G Main) and Suite no. 3 (in C Main).
As a bonus for listeners is an outstanding recording of Simon’s association of “L’Heure Exquisse” by Reynaldo Hahn for guitar and cello, carried out by Simon and Jacques. It is a touching piece that has profound private that means for Simon and one I feel you’ll all get pleasure from.
Dr. Jacques Lee Wood (DMA, Yale College) is an in-demand trainer and performer positioned in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Jacques performs in lots of chamber teams, together with Antico Fashionable, a interval chamber ensemble that commissions new works for interval devices, and StringLab, a duo with Simon Powis, and is a visitor artist in lots of music festivals and venues throughout the world. He’s additionally a principal participant with the Grammy-nominated Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Bachsolisten Seoul, the American Baroque Orchestra. You’ll additionally hear Jacques taking part in with the NYC-based fashionable bluegrass group Cathedral Parkway, taking part in mandolin, cello, and banjo (of which Simon can be a founding member).