Cellist Tanya Tomkins is American and is based in the San Francisco Bay area, probably the site of the U.S.'s most fertile early music scene. She lived in the Netherlands for 14 years, however, and this historically oriented recording of Bach's Six Suites for unaccompanied cello could qualify as state of the art in the historical-performance heartland of northwestern Europe. In five of the six suites Tomkins uses an instrument that is not precisely the promised Baroque cello: an instrument made in London in 1798. But it is ...
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Cellist Tanya Tomkins is American and is based in the San Francisco Bay area, probably the site of the U.S.'s most fertile early music scene. She lived in the Netherlands for 14 years, however, and this historically oriented recording of Bach's Six Suites for unaccompanied cello could qualify as state of the art in the historical-performance heartland of northwestern Europe. In five of the six suites Tomkins uses an instrument that is not precisely the promised Baroque cello: an instrument made in London in 1798. But it is closer to the instruments Bach would have known than to a modern cello, and Tomkins tunes it to a'=415 Hz and apparently uses an old bow, the characteristic ease of the suites' numerous double- and triple-stopped passages on the historical cello is fully exploited, and the music just seems to "sweat" less than on a modern instrument. For the Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012, Tomkins opts for full authenticity, performing it on a copy of a five-string cello from 1699, the instrument...
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