World of the Bach Suites No. 5 | Series by Tamás Zétényi and Marcell Dargay

Program:
Domenico Gabrielli: Ricercare No. 1 in G minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite in C minor, BWV 1011
Marin Marais: La Rêveuse
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 1 in C minor, BWV 812 – arranged by Marcell Dargay and Tamás Zétényi 
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco: Caprice No. 1 in C minor

Featuring:
Tamás Zétényi – cello

In addition to exploring the multifaceted suites, the cellist also aims to place the inexhaustible richness of Bach’s style in a wider context. The performance of the cello suites will be preceded by one piece from Domenico Gabrielli's Ricercar series, which, dating from 1689, are among the earliest examples of solo cello works and offer a glimpse into the virtuoso Italian music of the generation before Bach. Before the French suites, we hear a composition by the great masters of the French Baroque: Sainte-Colombe the Elder and Sainte-Colombe the Younger, François Couperin or Marin Marais (originally written for viola da gamba and continuo or harpsichord). The one-hour programme is rounded off by the Caprices of Joseph Marie Clément Dall'Abaco, working one generation after Bach. The style of the Caprices, written around 1770, represents a transition between Baroque and Classical, approaching the world of Empfindsamkeit, hallmarked by the name of Bach’s most successful son, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Yet their emotional, melancholic and sensitive tone can be seen as a direct successor to Bach's suites.