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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled announces the release of his latest ...

After the teenage Catalan cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973) found an edition of Bach's "Suites for Unaccompanied Cello" in a Barcelona music shop around 1890, he practiced for a dozen years before ...

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 ...

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Even today, 50 years after his death in October 1973 at age 96, Pablo Casals remains the world’s most celebrated cellist—the man and his instrument inextricably linked in the minds of music lovers the ...

Hear a mix of two recordings made on November 23, 1936, put together by Brendan Baker for Radio Diaries. Nov. 23, 1936, was a good day for recorded music. Two men, an ocean apart, each stepped up to a ...

Leading cellists explain the power - and their love - of Bach's Cello Suite No 1 in G Major. With Steven Isserlis. From 2015. Show more Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No I in G major is one of ...

The ironies of artistic genius and public taste are subtly explored in this winding, entertaining tale of a musical masterpiece. Music critic Siblin parallels short, fluent biographies of composer ...