Out now, Gale Recordings, nicolella.com/cds.htm Of the six suites Johann Sebastian Bach composed for solo cello (in 1720 or thereabouts), he later arranged one to be ...

‘If I don’t feel too good,” writes Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga, “I go to my studio and play one or two suites – it’s a mental cleansing process.” Plenty of musicians turn to Bach for solace or ...

An extraordinary two years for Anatasia Kobekina, who reaches a high point in September when Sony Classical releases the trailblazing cellist’s recording of Bach’s iconic Cello Suites on September 26, ...

The brand new DSD version of The Complete Bach Cello Suites by Zuill Bailey is now available from Octave Records as a download. I don’t care if you love classical music or not, but some recordings ...

Occasionally I’ll be on Facebook and a photo from 2007 will pop up as a ‘memory’. I’ll pass through a sequence of emotions: surprise, nostalgia, then incredulity. Did I really look that young? I ...

There’s something mysterious about Bach’s cello suites. On the face of it they’re just sets of charming Frenchified courtly dances, like the thousands churned out in courts all over Europe in the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Bach - Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major Bach - Cello Suite No. 5 in c ...

Nevertheless, the musical results have been at best mixed and the series has not been without its detractors. Criticism has been directed not so much at the deconstruction of the classics per se but ...

When asked if there was a story behind his new two-CD set, cellist Andre Laurent O’Neil replied, “I was in fifth grade…” Yes, that sounds like he’s got a story to tell. And it comes as no surprise, ...

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 ...