Bach’s instrumental output encompasses a wide spectrum, but none so intimate as his suites for solo cello. Watch and listen to six great cellists playing highlights of these amazing pieces. When you ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Calm and graceful, this cello piece by Bach slowly dances through hopefulness, longing and introspection. Calm and graceful, this cello piece ...

Watch tubist Ben Posner perform the "Sarabande" from Bach's 5th Cello Suite. Watch tubist Ben Posner perform the "Sarabande" from Bach's 5th Cello Suite. Ben is the April 2025 WMHT-FM Classical ...

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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites are some of the most iconic classical music works. They have inspired not only cellists and audiences but other artforms as well, and they have been ...

The first thing to strike me is the instrument’s depth of tone, certainly as recorded, most particularly in the Fifth Suite in C minor with its scordatura (darkened retuning). Here the sheer weight of ...

Held at the World Trade Center site, or Ground Zero, in New York City, an event marking the 25th anniversary of September 11 featured cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing as the names of the deceased were read ...

Violinist Podger makes Bach’s suites sound as if they were written for her instrument, such is her buoyancy and agility Isn’t Rachel Podger a violinist? What’s she doing recording Bach’s Cello Suites?