Last fall CBC Music approached six Canadian cellists to each record one of the solo cello suites by J.S. Bach. Yegor Dyachkov selected the fourth suite, and performed it in studio 12 at the Maison de Radio-Canada in Montreal. Dyachkov reveals that he has been influenced and inspired by leading period instrument performers.
CBC Music asked Dyachkov to name three recordings of Bach's cello suites that he would recommend to a student. Here are the three he came up with.
Jaap ter Linden
Anner Bylsma
Pieter Wispelwey
Dyachkov tells us, "I'm personally drawn to the baroque sound and I can't deny that I'm influenced by these performances. The sound, the use of vibrato, the rhetoric and the voicing are appealing to me." Dyachkov is also drawn to the lower tuning of period instruments: "If I didn't have perfect pitch, I would play it tuned much lower, but that plays tricks with my ears and I can't do it."
Watch Dyachkov play the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 4.
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