Bach Cello Suite No 1 (full) - Georg Mertens performing on a beautiful ancient instrument

(This video has first been published on my patreon series "The Bach Cello Suites" - Lessons, Talks and Recordings, see:   / georgcello  , go to "collections". The movements have been recorded separately, accompanying the lessons to each movement.)
J.S. Bach Cello Suite No 1:
0.00 min - Prelude
(see also: Bach Talk: Suite No 1 - Prelude, bar/measure 26 : B or Bb? -   / 90876185   )
2.16 min - Allemande
7.08 min - Courante
10.01 min - Sarabande
(see also: Bach Talk: Sarabande of Suite No 1 - F or F# in bar/measure 13? -   / 91817535   )
13.14 min - The Menuets
(see also: Bach Talk: Suite No 1 - Menuet 2, bar/measure 7: E or Eb? -   / 98359664   )
16.23 min - Gigue
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To the cello used in this performance:
Originally this instrument was made as a larger 3 stringed bass violin (before the name cello existed!) originally made c 1500-1600 in Austria or Bohemia, cut back between 1700-1750 to the size of our normal 4 string cello.
I bought it in 1969. All my teacher didn't like it, because of its unusual dimensions, it "would wreck my technique"!
Today it is set up with wound gut strings. I play it with a Baroque bow, Baroque tuning - a bit more than a semitone lower than our standard A.
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Prelude & the Menuets from Suite 1 are part of My CELLO METHOD Vol. 4 "Gems from the vast Repertoire of Cello Music within Positions 1-4".
For "My Cello Method" visit:   / georgcello   - then go to "Shop"
(lesson 1-10 is offered as a free trial / sheet music attached)
For an insight into the complex history of the Bach Cello Suites including the more than 80 editions see: http://www.georgcello.com/bachcellosu...
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Vibrato in Baroque Music: The Baroque composer Geminiani wrote in 1752: "Use vibrato wherever you can, it sweetens the sound".
Mozart's father Leopold distinguished already between slow and fast vibrato, increasing and decreasing the speed of vibrato (published 1750).
The idea that Baroque players didn't use vibrato goes back to a group firstly in Berlin, Prussia, who from Telemann to Spohr to the Romantic opposed vibrato. In the Romantic period string players hardly used vibrato until the violinist Kreisler reintroduced it in the early 20th century.
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Georg is a performer / composer / teacher living in the Blue Mountains / Australia
For my step by step online cello course in 6 Volumes or the Bach Cello Suites Project go to:   / georgcello   - then go to "collections" / for sheet music go to "shop"
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