CMNZ Series Daniel Müller-Schott – Bach Solo Cello Suites

The six dances that comprise each of the six suites for solo cello provide the musical architecture around which Johann Sebastian Bach has explored the dichotomy of human emotion and intellect, creating some of the most extraordinary music ever composed for a solo instrument.
The cello suites are a touchstone work for cellists and carry with them a high risk-reward ratio. They are exposing, but in the hands of such a virtuoso as German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, they are transcendent.

Described by the New York Times as “a fearless player with technique to burn”, Müller-Schott has been a soloist with leading international orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and London Symphony Orchestras, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Bayrisches Staatsorchester and Münchner Philharmoniker.

Daniel Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis. He was supported personally by Anne-Sophie Mutter and received, among other awards, the Aida Stucki Prize as well as a year of private tuition under Mstislaw Rostropovich. At the age of fifteen, Daniel Müller-Schott won the first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in 1992 in Moscow.