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 ...

(6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 1 in G, BWV1007 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Angela East, Cello (6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008 Angela East, ...

Bach’s sublime Six Suites for solo cello are possibly the most frequently published works in western music history, yet their source editions are shrouded in mystery. Cellist and writer Jeffrey Solow ...

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 ...

Do we need another book on Bach’s Cello Suites? It didn’t take long for Edward Klorman, associate professor at Montreal’s McGill University, to convince me. This latest in the New Cambridge Music ...

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 ...

Violinist Podger makes Bach’s suites sound as if they were written for her instrument, such is her buoyancy and agility Isn’t Rachel Podger a violinist? What’s she doing recording Bach’s Cello Suites?

BACH’S six cello suites are one of the corner­stones of Western artistic achievement and are often heard one at a time, or in part, but you don’t often get to hear the complete set in one night. It’s ...

Internationally renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has released a music video featuring footage crowd-sourced from around the world. In the video Ma performs performs the Prelude from Bach’s First Cello Suite.

This album marks the solo debut recording of René Schiffer, who has served as principal cellist of Apollo's Fire since the ensemble's founding in 1992. The album arrives not as a routine addition to ...

Edward Klorman and Matthew Zalkind discuss the history of J. S. Bach's six Cello Suites. Edward Klorman and Matthew Zalkind, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of ...