The Anner Bylsmer Collection

4 box sets available in this series:
Anner Bylsma plays Cello Suites and Sonatas
Anner Bylsma plays Concertos and Ensemble Works
Anner Bylsma plays Chamber Music Vol. 1
Anner Bylsma plays Chamber Music Vol. 2

Sony Classical celebrates the 80th birthday of distinguished Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma with a special survey of his finest recordings, many originally issued on Sony’s legendary period-music label Vivarte, and now re-released as four individually boxed sets.

Born in The Hague in 1934, Bylsma won First Prize in the 1959 Pablo Casals Competition in Mexico and served as Principal Cellist in Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1962 to 1968, before becoming better known as one of the leading pioneers in the period-instrument revival of the Sixties and Seventies.

A close collaborator of such fellow “Dutch Baroque School” members as Frans Brüggen and the late Gustav Leonhardt, he co-founded the period-instrument chamber ensemble L’Archibudelli with his wife, the violinist Vera Beths, and in 1979 famously made the first ever period-instrument recording of Bach’s six unaccompanied Cello Suites.

While Bylsma has won fame for his historically informed interpretations of the major Baroque and early Classical masterpieces, he is no adherent of dry authenticity, preferring instead to pursue the ideal of ‘musical truth’. As he says: “It’s more of a feeling that you must be playing the way the piece was meant to be played. If it is meant honestly and comes from the heart, then it rings true and gives pleasure.”

Disc: 1
1. I. Allegro ma non tanto - Anner Bylsma
2. II. Scherzo, Allegro molto - Anner Bylsma
3. III. Adagio cantabile - Anner Bylsma
4. Allegro vivace - Anner Bylsma
5. I. Adagio sostenuto - Anner Bylsma
6. Allegro - Anner Bylsma
7. II. Rondo, Allegro vivace - Anner Bylsma
8. I. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo - Anner Bylsma
9. Allegro molto più tosto presto - Anner Bylsma
10. II. Rondo, Allegro - Anner Bylsma

Disc: 2
1. I. Andante - Anner Bylsma
2. Allegro vivace - Anner Bylsma
3. II. Adagio - Tempo d'Andante - Anner Bylsma
4. Allegro vivace - Anner Bylsma
5. I. Allegro con brio - Anner Bylsma
6. II. Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto - Anner Bylsma
7. III. Allegro fugato - Anner Bylsma
8. 12 Variations on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for Pianoforte and Violoncello in F Major, Op. 66 - Anner Bylsma

Disc: 3
1. I. Allegro moderato - Anner Bylsma
2. II. Scherzo, Allegro - Anner Bylsma
3. III. Andante cantabile - Anner Bylsma
4. IV. Allegro moderato - Anner Bylsma
5. I. Allegro vivace e con brio - Anner Bylsma
6. II. Largo assai e espressivo - Anner Bylsma
7. III. Presto - Anner Bylsma

Disc: 4
1. I. Allegro con brio - L'Archibudelli
2. II. Andante - L'Archibudelli
3. III. Menuetto, Allegretto - L'Archibudelli
4. IV. Adagio - L'Archibudelli
5. V. Menuetto, Moderato - L'Archibudelli
6. VI. Finale, Allegro - L'Archibudelli
7. I. Marcia, Allegro - L'Archibudelli
8. II. Adagio - L'Archibudelli
9. III. Menuetto, Allegretto - L'Archibudelli
10. IV. Adagio - Scherzo, Allegro molto - L'Archibudelli
11. V. Allegretto alla Polacca - L'Archibudelli
12. VI. Andante quasi Allegretto - Finale, Marcia - L'Archibudelli

Disc: 5
1. I. Allegro con brio - L'Archibudelli
2. II. Adagio - L'Archibudelli
3. III. Rondo, Allegro - L'Archibudelli
4. I. Allegro - L'Archibudelli
5. II. Minuetto - L'Archibudelli
6. I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto - L'Archibudelli
7. II. Andante con Variazioni - L'Archibudelli
8. III. Presto - L'Archibudelli

Disc: 6
1. I. Allegro moderato
2. II. Andante un poco mosso
3. III. Scherzo, Allegro - Trio
4. IV. Rondo, Allegro vivace
5. I. Allegro
6. II. Andante con moto
7. III. Scherzo, Allegro moderato - Trio
8. IV. Allegro moderato

Disc: 7
1. I. Allegro più moderato - L'Archibudelli
2. II. Scherzo, Prestissimo - Trio - L'Archibudelli
3. III. Adagio - L'Archibudelli
4. IV. Allegro - L'Archibudelli
5. I. Allegro - L'Archibudelli
6. II. Andante sostenuto - L'Archibudelli
7. I. Allegro moderato - L'Archibudelli
8. II. Andante - L'Archibudelli
9. III. Menuetto, Allegretto - Trio - L'Archibudelli
10. IV. Rondo, Allegretto - L'Archibudelli

Disc: 8
1. I. Allegro vivace - L'Archibudelli
2. II. Andante - L'Archibudelli
3. III. Scherzo, Presto - L'Archibudelli
4. IV. Tema, Andantino - Variations I-VI - Allegretto - L'Archibudelli
5. V. Finale, Allegro giusto - L'Archibudelli
6. I. Allegro moderato
7. II. Adagio
8. III. Allegretto
9. Trio for Piano, Violin and Violoncello in E-Flat Major, D. 897 "Notturno"

Disc: 9
1. I. Allegro ma non troppo
2. II. Adagio
3. III. Presto - Trio, Andante sostenuto
4. IV. Allegretto
5. Rondo for Violin and String Quartet in A Major, D. 438

Disc: 10
1. I. Allegro non troppo
2. II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto - Trio
3. III. Allegro
4. I. Vanitas vanitatum, Mit humor
5. II. Langsam
6. III. Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen
7. IV. Nicht zu rasch
8. V. Stark und markiert
9. I. Allegro vivace
10. II. Adagio affettuoso
11. III. Allegro passionato
12. IV. Allegro molto

Disc: 11
1. I. Allegro ma non troppo - L'Archibudelli
2. II. Andante ma moderato - L'Archibudelli
3. III. Scherzo, Allegro molto - Trio, Animato - L'Archibudelli
4. IV. Rondo, Poco Allegretto e grazioso - L'Archibudelli
5. I. Allegro non troppo - L'Archibudelli
6. II. Scherzo, Allegro non troppo - Trio, Presto giocoso - L'Archibudelli
7. III. Adagio - L'Archibudelli
8. IV. Poco Allegro - L'Archibudelli

Disc: 12
1. I. Allegro con moto - L'Archibudelli
2. II. Intermezzo, Andante sostenuto - L'Archibudelli
3. III. Scherzo, Allegro di molto - L'Archibudelli
4. IV. Allegro vivace - L'Archibudelli
5. I. Allegro vivace - L'Archibudelli
6. II. Andante scherzando - L'Archibudelli
7. III. Adagio e lento - attacca - L'Archibudelli
8. IV. Allegro molto vivace - L'Archibudelli