Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. One day in the late 1890s a jobbing cellist dropped into a thrift shop in Barcelona and came out with the printed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was first smitten with the desire to transcribe and record Bach's Solo Cello Suites, my idea was to transform each of the 36 movements – six pieces of music in each of six suites – into music ...

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 ...