Complete Bach Cello Suites with Miklós Perényi I A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The 13-year-old Pablo Casals rediscovered for the 20th century Johann Sebastian Bach’s suites written for cello when he was out walking one day with his father and came across the sheets in an antiquarian bookshop in Barcelona. He spent more than 12 years practising them before performing the first in 1901, then only decades later he recorded the entire series. Since then it has been an obligatory task for every cellist to perform the six magical works written around 1720. It is not the first time that Miklós Perényi has undertaken to fill the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy with the sweet notes of the cello, playing the entire series at two concerts: the last time was 20 years ago, in 1995. At that time, legendary critic György Kroó wrote: ‘There was nothing of a rhetorical or sermonising nature in this play. It had the impact of the simplest human speech. Pure words that took flight, but they arrived from such a close proximity that they were almost tangible, they stroked, warmed and surrounded one. These works, even in relation to Bach, belong among the highest summits, and who other than Miklós Perényi is better qualified through his genius to surmount these peaks!’