BACH Solo Cello - Suites I-II-III

José Augusto Pereira de Sousa

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This Cd produced by Numérica at the request o Oporto City-Hall, collects the Bach Suites I-II-III, for solo cello, interpreted by José Pereira de Sousa. In this recording the interpreter plays the famous cello Montagnana, former property of the famous Portuguese cellist Guilhermina Suggia.

J. S. Bach 

SUITE I

em sol Maior | 20’42’’

SUITE II

em Ré menor | 22’41’’

SUITE III

Em Dó maior | 27’47’’

Details:

José Pereira de Sousa concluded the degree in cello in 1986 from the Conservatório de Música do Porto (Oporto Music Conservatory) with distinction.

Since 1982 he has been granted several awards, namely the Gulbenkian Prize, Eng. António de Almeida Prize (awarded by Fundação Eng. António de Almeida) and Guilhermina Suggia Prize, among many.

He attended the master classes of cello with Charles Medlan, Luis Legia and Paul Tortelier as teachers, and of chamber music with Albert Lysi e Maurice Raskin.

As a soloist he performed with the following orchestras: R. D. P. - Rádio Difusão Portuguesa (Oporto and Lisbon), Camerata do Porto, Regie Sinfonia, Orquestra Clássica do Porto (Oporto Classical Orchestra), Greek Juvenile Orchestra, Orchestra of the Festival Les Arcs, Orchestra of the European Communities and World Orchestra. He was violoncellist soloist of all these orchestras, except of R. D. P. - Rádio Difusão Portuguesa.

He has been developing an intense activity as a soloist in chamber music, namely with the Quarteto Suggia, Kora Ensemble, Quarteto Mosaico and Solistas do Porto (Soloists of Oporto), where he is Artistic Director. 

He recorded many times for R. D. P. – Rádio Difusão Portuguesa (the Portuguese state radio), R. T. P. – Rádio e Televisão Portuguesa (the Portuguese state television) and the record label Numérica. 

He had the pleasure of performing some recitals of Portuguese authors as it happened with the Sonatina of Claudio Carneyro, which was published with his revision.

Besides the frequent cooperation with the most prestigious Portuguese organizations of concerts, he has been repeatedly invited to perform abroad namely in France, Germany, Italy, Malta and Brazil.

He directs many courses of cello and cello pedagogy in Portugal and Brazil.

Today he is first cello of the Oporto National Orchestra, artistic director of the Jean Piaget Chamber Orchestra, teacher of cello and chamber music, and coordinator of the Master’s Degree in cello of the University of Aveiro.

He plays the Cavalieri and Montagnana cellos, which once belonged to the remarkable violoncellist Guilhermina Suggia.

Ref.: NUM 1134