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Review by JJ October 3, 2009 (5 of 6 found this review helpful)
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For her first solo recording, the least one can say is that violist Tabea Zimmermann has not chosen easy works. In programming the Three Suites for Solo Viola Op.131D by Max Reger, and the Suites for Solo Cello N°1 in G major BWV 1007 and N°2 in D minor BWV 1008 by Jean-Sebastian Bach, the young artist hands us a most unexpected calling card. “Bach’s suites,” she states, “are grandiose, admirable works that suit the viola to perfection. Insofar as Reger’s suites, they were written for viola and are nevertheless rarely played in concert. They are more like study pieces in the framework of advanced studies. They are extremely demanding compositions on the technical level, and musically in perfect harmony with Bach’s suites. Reger was very much at ease with old forms. He gave them new life, and a romantic twist to the Baroque.” Tabea Zimmermann’s playing is profound, sculptural, and woven with unpretentious zeal. The autumnal colors of her instrument (a 1980 Vatelot) surround rather than charm you, thereby revealing her musical discourse’s basic humanism, which makes this instrumental singing like suspended time, one that the music requires. Here is an admirable SACD from start to finish…
Jean-Jacques Millo
Translation Lawrence Schulman
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