Bach

“Her performance flows, ripples, winks, seduces, holds back and accelerates, always following the music and always as if it has never been different.

The words above refer to my first Bach cd which is sold out but still digitally available. I have been promising for years that there will be a follow up and now I’m finally – slowly but surely – delivering on that promise. It will not be an album with only cello suites. Stay tuned

Fifth Bass Guitar
The guitar played on this CD sounds a perfect fifth lower than a standard classical guitar, so I suppose could be called a fifth bass guitar. Playing this instrument for the first time the cello suites immediately came to my mind as the perfect repertoire for this instrument. Although most guitarists follow the practice of adding notes to the original, I have found the pieces absolutely  perfect as they are. The instrument was made by my husband, the guitar builder Otto Vowinkel.

Tuning
A classical guitar is usually tuned E A d g b e’
This fifth bass guitar is tuned A D G c e a
The tuning of a modern cello is C G d a

Transcription
For the transcription I used the violin version of Bach, The Fencing Master, by Anner Bijlsma, based on Anna Magdalena Bach’s manuscript in the Reinhardt edition, as well as Bach Sechs Suiten für Violoncello solo, Urtext, Edition Peters, nr 9054.

line up 

• Olga Franssen recording director 
• Jaime Rodriguez recording engineer
• Bernard Joosten mixing engineer
• Recording Studio Camino Music Amsterdam

Track List

• Suite Nr. 1 G BWV 1007
  Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuet I&II, Gigue
• Suite Nr. 2 d BWV 1008
  Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuet I&II, Gigue
• Suite Nr. 3 C BWV 1009
  Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourree I&II, Gigue