Carte Blanche Concert III: Cello Evolutions I: Colin Carr, cello

Cellist Colin Carr, who inaugurated Music@Menlo’s Carte Blanche Concert series in 2004 with an unforgettable marathon performance of the complete Bach Cello Suites, revisits two of them here—the victorious Third Suite and the austere Fifth. The Bach Suites, bedrock works in the cello’s solo repertoire, set a precedent that would guide composers for generations, as evidenced by the Sonata for Solo Cello of the Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Zoltán Kodály, composed in 1915.

PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750): Suite no. 3 in C Major for Solo Cello, BWV 1009 (ca. 1720);
Suite no. 5 in c minor for Solo Cello, BWV 1011 (ca. 1720)
Zoltán KODÁLY (1882–1967): Sonata for Solo Cello, op. 8 (1915)

ARTIST
Colin Carr, cello