J.S. Bach / Sariel - Plucked Bach / Cello SuitesAlon Sariel makes his PENTATONE debut with Plucked Bach, a program exploring Bach's cello suites performed on different mandolins, lutes, baroque guitar and oud, concluding with Sariel's own Bach inspired Mandolin Partita. Bach's suites are often considered to be "the cellist's Bible", but the transferability of his music between instruments a practice to which the composer himself also contributed frequently seems to justify this fresh approach.

until Tillmann Höfs came from Hamburg in 2017

Rameau/ Banchini/ Muller/ Lengelle - Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts (Complete Books 1-5)

The pieces chosen here are quite impactful

three- ganggangsullae song and dance

Despite the music's quality

is very eager to collect against the wager

latterly alongside Boris Bolles and David Panzl as the Johannes Motschmann Trio

and picked out more than just the hits

and a nagging undercurrent of ennui

Highlights include "Junka

emotion and intellect

fresh arrangements of existing pieces