Bach: Complete Cello Suites

"There was perhaps no more perfect antidote to the Bank Holiday tumult of Oxford Street than Queyras's Bach suite...There was no hint of ostentation or overstatement in any of this, but only an affecting naturalness from a musician who has clearly thought deeply about the music and the emotional range it conveys (Daily Telegraph).

"Here's another excellent performance of this pinnacle of the cellist's repertoire to add to over 50 currently available. Queryas is master of his instrument. Intonation is well-nigh impeccable...this is most warmly recommended for revealing new facets of the unfathomable,"
Five Stars (*****) BBC Music (February 2008)

When Bach revels in the obligation to set out his harmony in melodic terms (in other words, to have the cello play successively each note of what would have been a single chord on the keyboard), the result is one of the supreme monuments of chamber music; when Jean-Guihen Queyras revels in this 'irresistible vitality' on his Gioffredo Cappa cello of 1696, the result is one of his most inspired recordings!

Bonus DVD: a complete filmed performance of the Third Suite and a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of this set.