Peter Gregson Bach Recomposed: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue

Peter Gregson – Bach Recomposed: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue Discover the album on a streaming platform of your choice: Subscribe here – The Best Of Classical Music: Bach’s Cello Suites – among the best-known and best-loved works in the classical canon – are reinvented by young Scottish composer Peter Gregson in his new album. Three hundred years after their creation, the six suites composed by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1717 and 1723 are given a stunning reinterpretation by the award-winning cellist for Deutsche Grammophon’s pioneering Recomposed series. “These suites are the foundation of the cello repertoire and I’ve grown up hearing and playing them, so I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t lost sleep over worrying about what Bach might have thought of this,” admits Gregson. Instead of being performed by a solo player, the six suites are played by Gregson and an ensemble of up to five other cellists, in variou