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Kilkenny Arts Festival 04 - 14 August 2022
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Live Performance / Indoors

Johnny Gandelsman

Bach's Cello Suites

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Johnny Gandelsman
  1. 10 August 2022
  2. 9pm
  3. The Black Abbey
  4. €25, €23
  5. 75mins approx.
  6. Book Tickets
  7. Programme Notes
  1. 10 August 2022
  2. 9pm
  3. The Black Abbey
  4. €25, €23
  5. 75mins approx.
  6. Book Tickets
  7. Programme Notes
“An exquisitely personal vision of Bach, all radical sincerity and glinting light. The audience sat rapt for nearly two hours, until it rose as one.”
Boston Globe

Grammy Award winning violinist Johnny Gandelsman returns to Kilkenny Arts Festival to perform his unique version of Bach's Cello Suites.

Bach composed so many wonderful pieces for violin that it’s rare for violinists to tackle works written for other instruments, but Johnny Gandelsman is no ordinary violinist. Whether performing solo or as part of the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider, who wowed the Festival in 2015, the Grammy Award-winning violinist has a restless appetite for invention, and this year he returns to Kilkenny to perform the complete set of Bach’s cello suites.

These works, supremely challenging to play, lie at the heart of the cello repertoire, but in Gandelsman’s hands they are utterly transformed. Don’t miss this chance to experience Bach’s great cello works as you’ve never heard them before!

Programme

Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007

Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008

Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009

Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010

Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011

Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012

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Johnny Gandelsman Notes

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