Bach’s instrumental output encompasses a wide spectrum, but none so intimate as his suites for solo cello. Watch and listen to six great cellists playing highlights of these amazing pieces. When you ...
Bach’s cello suites are among the best known works of classical music, now risking popularization to the point of fatigue as they provide background music for cat food commercials. But one hundred and ...
They’re one of the greatest glories of classical music but the Cello Suites took many decades to be appreciated and understood. Steven Isserlis tells the story of ‘one of the pillars of western ...
Bach’s six suites for the solo cello are among the most iconic works of music ever composed. They have been played by the world’s greatest cellists, on disc and on film, at the fall of the Berlin Wall ...
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Weilerstein’s tour de force performance of the six suites – spread across two concerts – was full of eloquence, colour and remarkable dynamic control Alisa Weilerstein turned to Bach’s Cello Suites, ...
World-renowned classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk joins us in the studio, playing Bach’s cello suites on classical guitar. The classical guitarist Eliot Fisk in performance. (Courtesy the Artist/ ...
Local music lovers are now enjoying a period of unprecedented great cello concerts. A few weeks ago famed cellist Alisa Weilerstein gave a stunning recital at Wharton Center, playing three Bach ...
The brand new DSD version of The Complete Bach Cello Suites by Zuill Bailey is now available from Octave Records as a download. I don’t care if you love classical music or not, but some recordings ...
J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 has been given the beatboxing treatment by a champion cello-boxer. Anyone who has ever tried to accompany themselves singing will know that musical multi-tasking is not ...
This may be Beethoven’s big year, but if — like me — you’re a lifelong go-for-Baroque music-lover, Bach is always in season. So it’s great news that the adventurous Art of Elan, a nonprofit arts ...
This is kind of an experimental show. Bach wrote six beautiful suites for solo cello, and I want to showcase two of them through interpretations by eight different cellists. The cello is probably the ...