Wimbledon Music Festival - St. CECILIA'S DAY SPECIAL EVENT - RAPHAEL WALLFISCH cello

St. CECILIA'S DAY SPECIAL EVENT, including food and wine

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH cello

J.S. Bach : The Complete Cello Suites
A rare opportunity to experience perhaps the greatest works ever written for the cello, played by a master.

Tickets are strictly limited to 65 in the beautiful music room built for King George IV, so early booking is advised for this very special event."

"Raphael Wallfisch's Bach interpretations seem effortless and natural. From the start he displayed an intensity and a depth of tone and interpretation. He gave the music creative form with vital, urgent and full-blooded, yet noble expression.

His perceptive, almost spiritual phrasing produced an immensely rich sound. Wallfisch's playing is unselfconscious and expressive, and displays a phenomenal technique. The individual movements flow naturally, nothing is forced or rigid. At the same time his music has a finely shaded and breathtakingly beautiful sound, even to the smallest detail.

His interpretation demonstrated that the suites are less an introverted dialogue with the human spirit, but rather dances full of vitality, the sensuousness of which he conveyed with obvious gusto. Yet Wallfisch also let his audience feel the underlying metaphysical elements in these dances in his interpretation of the Sarabandes - sometimes transparent and ethereal, sometimes questing, sometimes elegiac or in a state of total introspection.

In addition to all this, the guests experienced the humanity and naturalness of the artist in person, whom they were able to meet during the concert interval. The audience was thrilled and thanked him with a standing ovation." Aargauer Zeitung