<!-- missing image http://blogs.kcrw.com/rhythmplanet/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-spacer.jpg -->This is kind of an experimental show. Bach wrote six beautiful ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 has been given the beatboxing treatment by a champion cello-boxer. Anyone who has ever tried to accompany themselves singing will know that musical multi-tasking is not ...
Musician Yeesun Kim wakes up every morning the way Pablo Casals did — by playing one of Bach’s six, demanding cello suites from memory. With her eyes closed, Kim’s fingers dart along her cello’s neck ...
The remarkable story of six suites composed for cello by J.S. Bach in the early 1700s, Eric Siblin’s new book is at once a study of music, a work of history, and a passionate tribute. Siblin, the ...
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 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 ...
In 1992, when the choreographer Jerome Robbins began to work with the ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov on a collection of solos that would eventually become “A Suite of Dances,” Robbins was going ...
(6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 1 in G, BWV1007 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Tanya Tomkins, Cello (6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008 Tanya Tomkins, ...
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 ...