{"id":29400,"date":"2023-06-14T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=185369"},"modified":"2023-06-14T16:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:41:23","slug":"watch-luis-cabrera-playing-bachs-cello-suite-no-1-on-double-bass","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/watch-luis-cabrera-playing-bachs-cello-suite-no-1-on-double-bass\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Luis Cabrera playing Bach\u2019s Cello Suite No. 1 on double bass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Double-bass player Luis Cabrera releases a historically informed double bass performance of JS Bach\u2019s famous Cello Suite No. 1 <\/p>

By Steve Wright\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 14 June 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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On 17 June, double-bass player Luis Cabrera releases a historically informed double bass performance of JS Bach\u2019s famous Cello Suite No. 1 in G major using a baroque violone<\/a> bow. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The performance of this six-movement work was recorded and filmed at the Evangelic-Lutheran Church in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The recording will be released as an audio album on 17 June 2023 on all regular streaming platforms. The video performance has been made available this week as six individual movements on both YouTube and the String Virtuoso platform.<\/p>\n

Here is Luis playing the Prelude<\/em> from the Cello Suite No. 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n\nIn preparing for this recording, Luis Cabrera studied the three most important known manuscripts of the work \u2013 by Anna Magdalena, Johan Kellner and an anonymous version. He then created his own edition for double bass, informed by extensive research of these three manuscripts.<\/p>\nThis new edition will be available to download later this year as sheet music from String Virtuoso.<\/p>\nHere is the Allemande<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe title=\""JS\" bach.=\"\" suite=\"\" bwv=\"\" for=\"\" solo=\"\" cello:=\"\" allemande.=\"\" played=\"\" by=\"\" luis=\"\" cabrera=\"\" double=\"\" bass=\"\" part=\"\" of=\"\" width=\""200"\" height=\""113"\" src=\""https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88qhiQGZ300?feature=oembed"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allow=\""accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" web-share=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\nLuis Cabrera performs on a Pietro Pallota double bass (c. 1815) using a baroque violone bow, which is much lighter than a standard double bass bow. He also performs in a <a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/baroque-music-guide\/"\">Baroque<\/strong><\/a> style, with reduced use of vibrato.<\/p>\n\u2018I have played a lot of baroque music with original instruments, gut strings and baroque bows, but always in an ensemble role, which I love and feels like the purest way of understanding the foundation of the music,\u2019 says Cabrera, who has been principal double bass for the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra for the last 17 years.<\/p>\n\u2018However, in order to play the solo works, I decided to embark on this journey of exploring manuscripts, analysing harmonies and motifs and finding a language to bring them out in an authentic way on the double bass.\u2019<\/p>\nLuis Cabrera performs the Menuet<\/em> from the Cello Suite No. 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe title=\""JS\" bach.=\"\" suite=\"\" bwv=\"\" for=\"\" solo=\"\" cello:=\"\" menuet.=\"\" played=\"\" by=\"\" luis=\"\" cabrera=\"\" double=\"\" bass=\"\" part=\"\" of=\"\" width=\""200"\" height=\""113"\" src=\""https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MZ2V_edcsMo?feature=oembed"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allow=\""accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" web-share=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n\u2018I tried to play Bach with a modern bow and although the notes are the same, the sound wasn\u2019t right. For this music you don\u2019t need the strong attack and big sound of modern bows, but clarity and articulation in a more elegant way which I hoped to have achieved with this recording.\u2019<\/p>\n<ul><li style=\""list-style-type:\" none=\"\">\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\u00a0<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Double-bass player Luis Cabrera releases a historically informed double bass performance of JS Bach\u2019s famous Cello Suite No. 1 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Double-bass player Luis Cabrera releases a historically informed double bass performance of JS Bach\u2019s famous Cello Suite No. 1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/29400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}