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 ...
More: $25-$45. For more information, call (509) 326-4942 or go to nwbachfest.com. Northwest BachFest will celebrate its 44th year with an online concert series featuring selections from J.S. Bach’s ...
Guitarist Slava Grigoryan embarks on a major new recording series surveying the music of JS Bach, beginning with the beloved Cello Suites. This album is the result of Grigoryan’s decades-long love ...
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 ...
Guitarist Eliot Fisk, known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous and virtuosic repertoire, will perform the J. S. Bach cello Suites 1, 3, and 6 as he has transcribed for ...
Andrew Manze presents two programmes looking at the cello suites of JS Bach. He plays recordings by Rostropovich, Jaap ter Linden and Yo-Yo Ma.
The cello has long been regarded as the orchestral instrument with a sound that most closely resembles the range and timbre of the human voice. In the first part of the 18th century, composer J. S.
When analysing Zara Nelsova’s recording of BWV1008, the musicologist Richard Beaudoin describes her ‘fingerfall … Many of Nelsova’s left-hand placements add a prominent, metallic click … a lively ...
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 ...
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma will perform J.S. Bach’s six cello suites live from the studios of WGBH on Sunday, May 24 at 3pm, a memorial for those we have lost in the pandemic and a tribute to the resilience of ...
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 ...