THE CELLO SUITES: J. S. BACH, PABLO CASALS, AND THE SEARCH FOR A BAROQUE MASTERPIECE By Eric Siblin Atlantic Monthly Press, $24, 19 pages REVIEWED BY PRISCILLA S. TAYLOR There’s no question that the ...

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 ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 Prelude is unlike anything else in the cello repertoire — darker, more ...

Once upon a time, the cello was used only as a constant baseline and backdrop for the other instruments in an orchestra. István Várdai proved this wrong a thousand times over with his performance of ...

Matt Haimovitz is a gifted cellist, whose restless searching for different modes of communication and expression on the instrument has led him in many interesting directions. In his second time ...

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If you do not already own a recording of Bach’s suites for the solo cello, you will certainly buy one before you finish reading Eric Siblin’s superb new book, “The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo ...

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Watch tubist Ben Posner perform the "Sarabande" from Bach's 5th Cello Suite. Watch tubist Ben Posner perform the "Sarabande" from Bach's 5th Cello Suite. Ben is the April 2025 WMHT-FM Classical ...

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Almost three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a series of six suites for the then most humble of instruments — the cello, or its ancestor. They were moving, mournful, joyous, rich with ...