Word: cello
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Last Thursday night's performance of all six of J.S.Bach's cello suites rivalled Wagner's Ring Cycle for rights to the lengthiest-musical-experience prize, while dazzling--and exhausting--fans...
...four-hour whirlwind of Baroque frenzy at the Museum of Fine Arts, audience members marvelled as dishy Dutch virtuoso Pieter Wispelwey became transfixed by the power of the polyphonic magic he was creating. Sharing his emotionally raw and whimsically timed rendering of the complete cycle of suites for solo cello, he invited all present to share in his sensual interpretation of these rich and technically brutal pieces...
...Fans extoll the virtues of hearing the compositions of such Baroque uber-studs as they would have been heard once upon a time. For this, the unaccustomed ear might have been a little challenged upon hearing the more delicate and subdued tonal color of Wispelwey's early eighteenth-century cello and violincello piccolo (small cello...
...meaty, warm sound of a modern cello to which we are accustomed does not do justice to the intricate and acrobatic exposition required by these suites. Even the manner in which he handled the instrument was interesting: lacking a modern steel base, this cello has to be gripped between the performer's thighs, requiring him to be quite athletic, as well as allowing him a greater range of motion...
...half-dozen suites, the first is by far the most melodic and novice-friendly. In the resonant key of G major, Wispelway's cello soared as he tenderly executed the audible and pleasant arc up to the final G of the prelude. Particularly impressive was his rendering of the rocket fast Courante in the second suite. Shallow, Lamaze-style puffs were audible as Wispelwey frantically kept pace with the technical demands of double and triple stopped crotched chords in an actually quite introspective piece...