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Jean-Guihen Queyras
12+ albums
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Jean-Guihen Queyras is a French cellist. He was born in Canada and moved with his parents to Algeria when he was 5. He then moved to France 3 years later. He is a professor at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and artistic co-director of the Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence. He has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, including the complete cello suites of Benjamin Britten and Johann Sebastian Bach and his recordings have won such distinctions as Top CD - BBC Music Magazine, Diapason d'Or, CHOC du Monde de la Musique, 10 de Classica/Répertoire, and Editor's Choice from Gramophone. He won the Glenn Gould Protege Prize in Toronto in 2002. He has recorded Haydn's and Monn's cello concertos on a period instrument together with the Freiburger Barockorchester. His repertoire also encompasses more recent works, which he performs internationally: he gave the world premieres of Ivan Fedele's cello concerto (Orchestre National de France, Leonard Slatkin) and Gilbert Amy's concerto (Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at Suntory Hall, Tokyo) and, in September 2005, he premiered Bruno Mantovani's concerto with the Saarbrücken Radio Sinfonie Orchestra and Phillippe Schoeller's Wind's Eyes with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg. Queyras is part of the Arcanto Quartet with Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec and Tabea Zimmermann. Jean-Guihen Queyras plays a cello made in 1696 by Goffredo Cappa. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may a
top songs
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Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude
1,4192Suite No. 1 in G Major BWV 1007. : I. Prélude
8193I. Prélude
4304Valse "La plus que lente"
4185Nihavent semai
4046Cello Sonata in D Minor, L. 135: III. Finale. Animé. Léger et nerveux
3677Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, TH 57: Var: VI. Andante
3418I would I were a bird
3409Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande
33610Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, RV 45: II. Allegro
327albums
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations / Dvořák: Silent Woods; Rondo
Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85 - Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Op. 33
Debussy & Poulenc: Sonatas For Cello & Piano
Schubert: Sonate Pour Violoncelle Et Piano "Arpeggione" D. 821
Haydn: Cello Concertos
Bach: Complete Cello Suites
J.S. Bach: Complete Cello Suites
Berg : Lyrische Suite - Schoenberg : Verklärte Nacht
Vivaldi: Cello Concertos
Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas
Thrace (Sunday morning Sessions)
J.S. Bach: Complete Cello Suites (The 2023 Sessions)