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 ...

The texture of Bach in its playing, as with any musical piece, is that can be about interpretation but it is also about the journey of the musician playing it. Cellist Robert La Rue who has played in ...

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 ...

The six cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach are different things to different cellists. There’s an almost jagged modernity to the 1930s recordings of them by Pablo Casals, who championed the suites ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is famous for his innovative, beautiful, and technically difficult pieces for orchestral ensembles and keyboard instruments. He also played the violin and wrote all sorts of solo ...

“Choreographers are constantly returning to Bach,” says San Francisco dance maker Amy Lewis. Seduced by the composer’s melodies and undaunted by his complexities, choreographers from George Balanchine ...

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 ...

What if one instrument could make you feel everything – joy, grief, longing, and hope, all at once? That’s the cello. Its voice sits closer to the human range than any other classical instrument, warm ...

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