JS Bach - 6 Suites for Cello Solo
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95392
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 20th January 2017
Contents
Artists
Istvan Vardai (cello)About
Having just turned 30, Várdai has accumulated a string of impressive competition successes including first prize at the Geneva International competition and the prestigious ARD cello competition in Munich, as well as special prize at the Kronberg Academy’s annual competition. Now, therefore, is as good a time as any to put down his thoughts on every cellist’s Old Testament with his superb 1720 Montagnana instrument, which he also uses for the Sixth Suite, originally conceived by Bach for a five‐stringed instrument such as the viola da spalla or violoncello piccolo.
‘Mr. Várdai’s trills,’ continued the New York Times review, ‘unfolded with elegant grace in his soulful rendition of the Allemande, and the Courante flowed with a joyous energy. Throughout the evening, he imbued the suites with an essential pulse and rhythmic vigour that respected the dance origins of the movements.’
Just last November he returned to the city, and the more conventionally prestigious venue of the Weill Recital Hall (part of the Carnegie Hall complex) for a recital of mostly Romantic repertoire with his fellow Hungarian, the pianist Zoltán Fejérvári. This time the reviews were no less enthusiastic:
‘István Várdai clearly can do many things so well,’ reported the critic of Seen and Heard, ‘and has a sensitivity, command and tonal lustre that are thoroughly distinctive. In some ways, he can seem to be a very tight, agile cellist yet he moves so compellingly into expressive and tonal breadth as well… It was all pretty special.’
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