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 ...

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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 ...

You might expect a baroque German theorbo to be a more faithful vehicle for Bach’s solo cello music than a modern viola. But Hopkinson Smith’s approach to the first three suites goes much further than ...

[As a 10-year old violin student, Antoine Tamestit 's initial encounter with Bach's suites for solo cello was "my first and most important musical emotion" and made him want to switch instrument.

A sense of joyful anticipation beamed from the numerous smiles of audience members as they filed into First (Scots) Presbyterian Church for Natalia Khoma’s performance of the first three of J. S. Bach ...

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 ...

“You could be having more fun with the music – you look a little stressed". It’s a fair comment. But when you’ve just played the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 to the man whose award-winning ...

Andrew Manze examines the six solo suites for cello by JS Bach, and the problems and decisions facing cellists as they approach the suites. He plays recordings by Casals, Fournier, Wispelwey, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No I in G major is one of the most frequently performed and recognisable solo compositions ever written for cello. Yet it was virtually unknown for almost 200 years ...

(6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 1 in G, BWV1007 Jeffrey McFadden, Guitar (6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008 Jeffrey McFadden, Guitar (6) Suites ...

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 ...