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 ...
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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My first exposure to Bach's Cello Suites, after working as a pop music critic for a daily newspaper, rewired my audio circuitry. It took place in a small concert hall where a cellist with a shock of ...
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/ ...
The six Bach cello suites have been heard just about everywhere -- in movies, television shows and commercials. But Zuill Bailey's recording is unique, because he's playing a cello only eight years ...
An Australian music professor is making headlines with a theory that some of Bach’s most treasured works were actually written by his wife. A new documentary film, Written by Mrs. Bach, suggests that ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Calm and graceful, this cello piece by Bach slowly dances through hopefulness, longing and introspection. Calm and graceful, this cello piece ...
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 ...
Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams is a macabre-minded, cello-toting force of nature. But does she actually play the instrument, and what song does Wednesday play on it? The eight-part series is based on ...
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 ...