Bruno Cocset
Baroque cellist and viola da gamba player Bruno Cocset is an influential figure on the French early music scene. He has played with many of Europe's leading historical performance groups and is the leader of his own, Les Basses Réunies.
Cocset was born in 1963 in Tours, France. He attended the Conservatoire National de Région de Tours there, studying cello with Didier Aubert and earning gold medals in cello, chamber music, and music theory. Cocset went on to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon, studying with Alain Meunier and Jean Deplace, but he was unhappy and dropped out in 1983. He taught himself to play the gut-stringed Baroque cello and then began taking lessons from Christophe Coin. When Coin established a new Baroque cello and viola da gamba class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris, Cocset enrolled. He graduated in 1986 with a unanimous first prize. Cocset also took master classes from cellist Anner Bylsma and violinist Jaap Schröder.
For the first part of his career, Cocset was active as a freelance cellist and gamba player, performing and recording with many of the leading Baroque music ensembles of the day. These included Les Arts Florissants, Coin's Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, and Les Musiciens du Louvre, with which Cocset appeared on a recording of Rameau's opera Platée in 1990. In 1996, Cocset created his own ensemble, Les Basses Réunies, focusing on the music of such neglected composers as Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco and Jean-Baptiste Barrière. With that group, he has toured widely in France and abroad, including places as far away as Russia, Quebec, and Lithuania, as well as in many western European countries. Cocset is on the faculty at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris, the School of Music in Catalonia, and the Geneva University of Music in Switzerland. He has made many recordings with Les Basses Réunies and with various ensembles directed by gamba player Jordi Savall. As a soloist and chamber player, he has made various recordings on the Alpha label, including one of Beethoven's cello sonatas in 2022. That year, he was also heard with the early music ensemble Le Caravansérail on a Harmonia Mundi recording of Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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La Nascita del Violoncello: Napoli - Bologna - Modena
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 8 mrt. 2024
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Vivaldi : Cello Sonatas
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Kamermuziek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cello Stories: The Cello in the 17th & 18th Centuries
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 6 sep. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Give Me Your Hand (Geminiani & The Celtic Earth)
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Kamermuziek - Released by Alpha Classics on 24 mrt. 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Frescobaldi: Canzoni
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Joseph Haydn : Divertimenti per il pariton a tre
Guido Balestracci, Alessandro Tampieri, Bruno Cocset
Klassiek - Released by Ricercar on 26 mei 2011
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Cello, Vol. 1
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 24 jun. 2022
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Boccherini : Sonate per il violoncello, Vol. 2
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Kamermuziek - Released by Alpha Classics on 21 sep. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Barrière: Sonates pour violoncelle & basse continue
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Kamermuziek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Captain Tobias Hume : "Harke, Harke !" Lyra Violls Humors & Delights
Guido Balestracci, Les Basses Réunies, Bruno Cocset
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 22 sep. 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sonates pour violoncelle avec la basse continue
Bruno Cocset, Luca Pianca, Les Basses Réunies
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 10 apr. 2008
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Barrière : Sonates pour violoncelle avec b. c., vol. II
Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci, Les Basses Réunies
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 16 okt. 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ortiz : Trattado de Glosas
Les Basses Réunies, Bruno Cocset, Guido Balestracci
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 20 mrt. 2020
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Sonatas, Chorales & Trios (Alpha Collection)
Les Basses Réunies, Bruno Cocset
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
J.- S. Bach : Cello Suites
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Luigi Boccherini : Sonates & concertos pour violoncelle
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Canzoni
Bruno Cocset, Les Basses Réunies
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 1 jan. 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert in Skálholt, Vol. 1
Bruno Cocset, Skálholt String Quartet
Kamermuziek - Released by Musica Omnia on 9 mrt. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Alla Virtù della Sig. Maria Pignatelli - Unpublished italian baroque cantatas
Juliette De Banes Gardonne, Bruno Cocset, Paolo Corsi
Klassiek - Released by Claves Records on 18 dec. 2020
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi - Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638
Gérard Lesne, Bernadette Charbonnier, Myriam Gevers, Bruno Cocset
Klassiek - Released by Send - Alia on 16 nov. 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo