Bach: Six Suites, Six Echoes

Six suites, six echoes – over one afternoon, Jean-Guihen Queyras performs Bach’s six suites for solo cello – and six responses by contemporary masters.

It’s a project born of another encounter with Bach. When Queyras performed two of the suites during the Barbican’s 2018 Bach Weekend his playing, said The Guardian, had ‘a wonderful fluency and naturalness to it, without a hint of grandstanding or attention-seeking’. We knew we had to hear him perform all six: and now, in the intimate space of Milton Court, that dream will take an even more fascinating – and stimulating – direction.