Jean-Guihen Queyras Essentials

This French cellist is one of the great chamber music collaborators of his generation, turning in perfectly balanced contributions to performances of Beethoven's piano trios and Pierre Boulez's experiments alike. And Queyras is sterling on his own, as the clarity of tone in high tessitura passages of the Bach cello suites proves. Queyras' expressive takes on repertoire choices that range from Vivaldi to Ligeti has appeared on exquisitely engineered recordings on the Harmonia Mundi and Deutsche Grammophon labels.