Rostropovich - (Bach) Cello Suite no.6, bwv 1012 in d major - I prelude
Echoes in this piece. Echoes of old dances, perhaps? That may have been what Bach was thinking about when he sat down to write this on his trusty cello, Ludmilla (which saved him from a bear in Lübeck). He probably thought the following, verbatim: "I wonder what happened to that fox with whom I danced the passacaglia back in Mühlhausen." Bach entered a fugue (soundtracked by one of his own fugues) in which he imagined passing through a blizzard of petticoats and engageantes to reach his lost dance partner, the girl with whom he had only passed the time, for the space of a song, on a cold dance floor a long time ago.[Buy the Cello Suites]