Bach Suites 1 & 3 For Cello (DSD Session Recording) [Pure DSD]

Here, we present Base2 Music’s first album featuring cellist Emilia Baranowska performing Bach’s Suites No. 1 in G major (BWV 1007) and No. 3 in C major (BWV 1009). This recording is available in two versions. This is the DSD Session Recording which was recorded in Stereo DSD 128 at ‘Burletts’, the home of Humphrey Avon in Bramber, West Sussex. Baranowska also performed these numbers for a live audience which was recorded in Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound as a DXD Concert Recording which you can find HERE.

This is a Stereo Pure DSD 128 Recording and is being released exclusively on NativeDSD in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128 and DSD 64.

Born in Sofia, Emilia Baranowska began piano lessons at the age of four with her mother, Maria Dimitrova-Baranowska, a pianist and renowned teacher. At the age of nine, Emilia switched to the cello and became a student of the great Bulgarian cellist Zdravko Yordanov, a disciple of Rostropovitch. Her encounters with Elefterios Papastavro, a disciple of Pablo Casals who taught in Paris, and with a German couple, Ernst and Margrit Hermann, patrons of the arts, changed the course of her life. At the age of 18, Emilia left her native country and settled alone in Paris to pursue her musical studies at the École Normale Supérieure de Musique from where she graduated with a ‘Licence de Concert’ diploma.

Emilia met Enrique Barenboim, the father of the great conductor Daniel, in Paris. Enrique was a great musician and pedagogue. After this meeting, Emilia was invited to study with the great cellist Jacqueline du Pré, wife of Daniel Barenboim. Emilia visited Jacqueline in 1978 four times before illness made any further visits impossible. After this time, Emilia moved to New York and the Julliard School to study under Léonard Rose.

Emilia Baranowska is…

“…one of the greatest cellists in the world.”

– France Soir

“…a virtuoso.”

– France America

“…a superior artist.”

– Le journal de Genève