Jian has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle, NDR Hamburg, Stockholm Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and NHK Symphony. Amongst his many high profile concerts in China, he has played for the President and opened the season for the China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony and Macau Symphony Orchestras. 

 

 

The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. They are some of the most frequently performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello. Bach most likely composed them during the period 1717–23, when he served as Kapellmeister in Köthen. The title given on the cover of the Anna Magdalena Bach manuscript was Suites à Violoncello Solo senza Basso (Suites for cello solo without bass).

 

 

These suites for unaccompanied cello are remarkable in that they achieve the effect of implied three- to four-voice contrapuntal and polyphonic music in a single musical line. As usual in a Baroque musical suite, after the prelude which begins each suite, all the other movements are based around baroque dance types; the cello suites are structured in six movements each: prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées or two gavottes, and a final gigue. The Bach cello suites are considered to be among the most profound of all classical music works. Wilfrid Mellers described them in 1980 as "Monophonic music wherein a man has created a dance of God."

 

Due to the works' technical demands, étude-like nature, and difficulty in interpretation because of the non-annotated nature of the surviving copies, the cello suites were little known and rarely publicly performed until they were revived and recorded by Pablo Casals in the early 20th century. They have since been performed and recorded by many renowned cellists and have been transcribed for numerous other instruments; they are considered some of Bach's greatest musical achievements.

 

2019.01.12 Program:
1. Suite No.1, BWV 1007, in G/G-dur/sol majeur  
Prelude  
Allemande  
Courante  
Sarabande  
Menute 1&2  
Gigue  
 
2. Suite No.5, BWV 1011, in C Minor/c-moll/ut mineur  
Prelude 
Allemande  
Courante  
Sarabande  
Gavotte 1&2  
Gigue  

 
3. Suite No.3, BWV 1009, in C/C-dur/ut majeur 
Prelude 
Allemande  
Courante  
Sarabande  
Bourrée 1&2  
Gigue  
 

2019.01.13 Program:
1. Suite No.4, BWV 1010, in E-Flat/Es-dur/mi bémol majeur  
Prelude 
Allemande  
Courante  
Sarabande  
Bourrée 1&2  
Gigue  
 
2. Suite No.2, BWV 1008, in D Minor/d-moll/ré mineur  
Prelude  
Allemande  
Courante  
Sarabande  
Menuet 1&2  
Gigue  
 
- Intermission -
 
3. Suite No.6, BWV 1012, in D/D-dur/ré majeur  
Prelude  
Allemande  
Courante  
Sarabande  
Gavotte 1&2   
Gigue