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World of the Bach Suites No. 1 | Series by Tamás Zétényi and Marcell Dargay

Budapest Music Center, BMC Corner Room
Mátyás utca 8., 1093 Budapest

This six-concert series for solo cello is based around Johann Sebastian Bach's suites. Alongside the well-known cello suites, Tamás Zétényi will also perform the French suites, originally for keyboard, which he and composer Marcell Dargay arranged for cello together.

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06 Oct 2025 Monday, 7:00PM

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Program:
Domenico Gabrielli: Ricercare No. 6 in G major
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite in G major, BWV 1007
François Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 6 in G major, BWV 817 – arranged by Marcell Dargay and Tamás Zétényi
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco: Caprice No. 8 in G major

Featuring:
Tamás Zétényi – cello

In addition to exploring the multifaceted suites, the cellist also aims to place the inexhaustible richness of Bach’s style in a wider context. The performance of the cello suites will be preceded by one piece from Domenico Gabrielli's Ricercar series, which, dating from 1689, are among the earliest examples of solo cello works and offer a glimpse into the virtuoso Italian music of the generation before Bach. Before the French suites, we hear a composition by the great masters of the French Baroque: Sainte-Colombe the Elder and Sainte-Colombe the Younger, François Couperin or Marin Marais (originally written for viola da gamba and continuo or harpsichord). The one-hour programme is rounded off by the Caprices of Joseph Marie Clément Dall'Abaco, working one generation after Bach. The style of the Caprices, written around 1770, represents a transition between Baroque and Classical, approaching the world of Empfindsamkeit, hallmarked by the name of Bach’s most successful son, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Yet their emotional, melancholic and sensitive tone can be seen as a direct successor to Bach's suites.