Artist : Enrico Mainardi (cello)
Title : J. S. Bach — Cello Suites BWV 1007~1012
 
RELEASE DATE : 20. Aug. 2018
FORMAT : Vinyl
CAT NO : LP43104
DISC : 4
BARCODE : 8808678161045
 
● From the original masters of Universal Music.
● Audiophile analogue mastering by Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios.
● 180g audiophile virgin vinyl pressed by Pallas GmbH in Germany.
● Very first box set of Mainardi’s Bach cello suites of legendary recordings from Archiv Produktion.
● Recording information sheets included.
● Side-slip box set with individual jackets.

RECORDING INFORMATION 
Recorded : 12~13.4.1954(BWV1007/1008 )/ 29.10.1954 (BWV1009)/ 15~20.11.1954(BWV1010)/ 23-25.21955(BWV1011)/24-28.10.1955(BWV1012) at Beethoven-Saal, Hannover, Germany 
Producer : Karl-Heinz Schneider 
Recording Engineer: Heinz Wildhagen
 
As can be easily inferred from his career path, Enrico Mainardi was a cellist whose artistic viewpoint was a grafting of the German school of cello playing influenced by Neue Sachlichkeit to the musical background of his motherland Italy. He record-ed the monaural cycle for the Archiv label between April 1950 and October 1955. Mainardi's Bach is leisurely and contempla-tive. His playing meditates on the auspicious meaning of the work - it is a musical delta of courteous low notes, a magical prayer of an aged monk. This is a masterful performance, and its value is somewhat different from the performances of today.