Bach: The Cello Suites Jian Wang

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007:
• 1 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prelude 02:45
• 2 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande 05:05
• 3 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: III. Courante 02:41
• 4 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: IV. Sarabande 03:38
• 5 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: V. Menuet I - Menuet II 03:16
• 6 Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue 01:51
• Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008:
• 7 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: I. Prelude 04:24
• 8 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: II. Allemande 03:42
• 9 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: III. Courante 02:17
• 10 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: IV. Sarabande 05:35
• 11 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: V. Menuet I - Menuet II 02:58
• 12 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: VI. Gigue 02:39
• Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009:
• 13 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: I. Prelude 04:08
• 14 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: II. Allemande 04:02
• 15 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: III. Courante 03:13
• 16 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: IV. Sarabande 04:52
• 17 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: V. Bourrée I - Bourrée II 04:12
• 18 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: VI. Gigue 03:16
• Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010:
• 19 Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: I. Prelude 04:11
• 20 Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: II. Allemande 04:10
• 21 Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: III. Courante 03:48
• 22 Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: IV. Sarabande 05:15
• 23 Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: V. Bourrée I - Bourrée II 05:19
• 24 Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: VI. Gigue 02:46
• Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011:
• 25 Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: I. Prelude 06:35
• 26 Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: II. Allemande 06:20
• 27 Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: III. Courante 02:24
• 28 Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: IV. Sarabande 03:11
• 29 Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: V. Gavotte I - Gavotte II 04:29
• 30 Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: VI. Gigue 02:34
• Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012:
• 31 Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: I. Prelude 04:57
• 32 Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: II. Allemande 09:11
• 33 Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: III. Courante 03:54
• 34 Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: IV. Sarabande 05:24
• 35 Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: V. Gavotte I - Gavotte II 04:21
• 36 Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: VI. Gigue 04:07
• Total Runtime 02:27:30

Info for Bach: The Cello Suites

As the first album after its launch on 15 May 2025, the new label Deutsche Grammophon China (DG China), a collaboration with Universal Music Greater China, will release its first album on 23 May 2025: “Bach: The Cello Suites”, recorded by internationally acclaimed cellist Jian Wang.

‘No music has accompanied and inspired me as a cellist as much as Bach's cello suites,’ says Jian Wang. "Over the past 20 years, I have returned to these works again and again, because they are fascinating and open up new facets and artistic insights for me each time. On the 20th anniversary of my first DG recording, I felt the desire to record these masterpieces once again and to make my growing understanding and my current thoughts audible in a new interpretation. I am very grateful to DG China for supporting this project."

Jian Wang, cello

Jian Wang
While a student at the Shanghai Conservatoire Jian Wang was featured in the celebrated documentary film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Mr Stern’s encouragement and support paved the way for him to go to the United States and in 1985 he entered the Yale School of Music under a special programme where he studied with the renowned cellist Aldo Parisot.

Jian’s first professional engagement was in 1986, at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Since then he has embarked on an international career, early highlights including concerts with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra/Claudio Abbado and with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly. He has also performed with many of the world’s other leading orchestras including the London Symphony, Cleveland, Zurich Tonhalle, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Stockholm Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Orchestre de Paris and NHK Symphony.

Jian Wang’s recent and future highlights include concerts with the Philharmonia, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, NHK Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Singapore and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. These concerts have been with many of the greatest conductors, such as Myung-Whun Chung, Dausgaard, Dudamel, Elder, Eschenbach, Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Neeme Järvi, Louis Langrée, van Zweden, Mark Wigglesworth and Szeps-Znaider.

Amongst his many high-profile concerts in China, he has opened the season for the China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony and Macau Symphony orchestras as well as performing with the China National Orchestra and Hangzhou Symphony. Jian was the first ever Artist-in-Residence for both the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing; the latter included his performance of the complete Bach Cello Suites. He has an extensive discography with DGG, including the Bach Cello Suites and the Brahms Double Concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado and Gil Shaham and chamber music with Maria João Pires and Augustin Dumay.

Jian is a Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory. His instrument is graciously loaned to him by the family of the late Mr. Sau-Wing Lam.

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