Bach am Bach Esmé de Vries

• Traditional: Vem kan segla förutan vind:
• 1 Traditional: Vem kan segla förutan vind 02:41
• Domenico Gabrielli (1659 - 1690): Ricercare for Cello Solo No. 3 in D Major:
• 2 Gabrielli: Ricercare for Cello Solo No. 3 in D Major 03:50
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008:
• 3 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: I. Prélude 03:44
• 4 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: II. Allemande 03:38
• 5 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: III. Courante 02:30
• 6 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: VI. Sarabande 04:36
• 7 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: V. Menuets I & II 03:17
• 8 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: VI. Gigue 02:53
• Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632 - 1692): Passa Galli per la lettera E:
• 9 Vitali: Passa Galli per la lettera E 01:55
• Anonymous: Bach am Bach, Lied des Wassers (Arr. By Esmé de Vries, after Bach, "Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland" BWV 659):
• 10 Anonymous: Bach am Bach, Lied des Wassers (Arr. By Esmé de Vries, after Bach, "Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland" BWV 659) 05:33
• Giuseppe Maria Dall'Abaco (1710 - 1805): Capriccio primo:
• 11 Dall'Abaco: Capriccio primo 03:25
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009:
• 12 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: I. Prélude 03:49
• 13 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: II. Allemande 03:53
• 14 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: III. Courante 03:26
• 15 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: IV. Sarabande 04:11
• 16 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: V. Bourrées I & II 04:19
• 17 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: VI. Gigue 03:30
• Giovanni Battista Vitali: Ruggiero per la lettera B:
• 18 Vitali: Ruggiero per la lettera B 02:35
• Total Runtime 01:03:45

Info for Bach am Bach

Vem kan segla is an 18th-century song from Åland (an island between Sweden and Finland) sung in Swedish. Folk songs from around the world were a source of musical pleasure for me in my youth.

I remember a hike in the Alps where, after a long climb uphill, I arrived at a wildly flowing mountain stream. I was alone. The music of the water elicited from my soul one of these songs and with abandon I let my voice melt with the sparkling water. Thus Lied des Wassers was born.

This recording is a dialogue between the babbling water of a stream in the Jura (where I live) and the sounds of the cello. Bach am Bach (Bach by the stream) is a hymn to the water and leads you to that hidden place, deep inside, where nature and music come together in harmony and emotions can flow freely.

A funny fact is that Veit Bach (1555-1619), the ancestor of the Bach family, lived 'am Bach', in a water mill. He was a miller and baker. In his spare time, he played a kind of small lute whose sounds he made dance to the natural metronome of the water wheel. Gilles Cantagrel writes in his book The Mill and the River: " Born under the sign of the fish, Johann Sebastian Bach is attached to this image of water. By the name of his forefathers, Bach is the river. " And further: " This movement of flowing water, which he so loved to incorporate as a motif, became one of his musical signatures."

I have given each suite a prologue and an epilogue in the form of short pieces for solo cello, written in the same key or the eponymous major or minor variation. Domenico Gabrielli (1659- 1690) can be seen as one of the founding fathers of the cello as a solo instrument. His 1689 collection of seven ricercari, two sonatas and a canon for two cellos is the first work in the history of the cello to be titled 'Violoncello'. With Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692) began the famous cello school of Bologna. Vitali was Gabrielli's teacher and he wrote a series of variations for 'Violone' on well-known dances from the 17th century . Dutch-born Italian composer Giuseppe Maria Clemens Dall'Abaco (1710-1805) seems to build on Gabrielli's ricercari from Bologna with his 11 capricci for solo cello.

I invite everyone to close their eyes and hear, feel and experience the sounds of Bach am Bach. (Esmé de Vries)

Esmé de Vries, cello

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