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Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008

I. Prelude

Master Class with Zvi Plesser (II/II)

Bach's Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor BWV 1008 – Prelude

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Zvi Plesser — Cellist

Michael Eltom Freimann — Cellist

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Accomplished Israeli cellist Zvi Plessner gives a master class at the Jersulem Music Centre, working with Michael Eltom Freimann on the Prelude from Bach's Solo Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor.

Bach's six Solo Cello Suites were composed while Kapellmeister in Cöthen, at a time when he was preoccupied with commissions for new works of instrument music of all kinds. The Cello Suites are more or less contemporaneous with the six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, but these unprecedented solo cello pieces were even more radical. Each of the Cello Suites features a selection of dances, and become progressively more complex, from the beautiful simplicity of the First Suite to the incredibly virtuosic the Sixth. Each suite has a unique character that is introduced by the initial prelude movement preceding the series of dances.

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