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Re: 6 Suites by Bach

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2009-04-15 13:38

I assume you mean the cello suites? They're wonderful pieces to practice. Some of them are a little too "stringy," but their advantages in having been written so well for a single unaccompanied instrument outweigh the occasionally too string-bound technical issues. I just don't play the ones very much that rely on double and triple stopping for their contrapuntal effects. I have a set that are transposed up a fifth (and an octave) so they fall on violin strings better and I mostly use those, since the ranges more closely fit the clarinet and don't cause the octave jumps that the original keys do. Occasionally, I pull out the original cello music to play on bass clarinet.

Karl

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