All Bach Cello Suites articles
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ReviewConcert review: Jan Vogler (cello) Amanda Gorman (poet)
Leah Hollingsworth hears the innovative performance of Bach at the Isaac Stern Auditorium in New York’s Carnegie Hall on 17 February 2024
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ReviewBook review: Bach Six Suites for Violoncello solo (BWV1007–12) arranged for viola solo
Misha Galaganov reviews Bärenreiter’s new edition of the Bach Suites edited for performance by violists
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VideoBach’s Prelude from Cello Suite no.1… on violin!
The prelude is just one movement from the six suites that Tomás Cotik has recently recorded for Centaur
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VideoYo-Yo Ma performs Bach in the Great Smoky Mountains
The cellist performs Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 outdoors in nature, marking 40 years since his first recording of the Bach Cello Suites
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VideoBach on the double bass: Edicson Ruiz performs the First Cello Suite
The double bass on performing Bach on the instrument
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ReviewBook review: The Well-Tempered Cello: Life with Bach’s Cello Suites
Janet Banks reviews an account by Miranda Wilson of learning and performing Bach’s Six Cello Suites from memory
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BlogsHow I prepare Bach’s Cello Suites: Christopher Suckling
Christopher Suckling muses on what we know, and what we don’t, about Bach’s Cello Suites
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ReviewBook review: Bach Revealed: A Player’s Guide to the Solo Cello Suites by J.S. Bach
Janet Banks reviews a new concept of learning and playing Bach’s Cello Suites
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Premium ❘ FeatureBach Cello Suites: What do we really know about Bach’s Cello Suites?
Bach’s sublime Six Suites for solo cello are possibly the most frequently published works in western music history, yet their source editions are shrouded in mystery. Cellist and writer Jeffrey Solow puts forward an intriguing new theory as to their origins
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Blogs‘Creating works inspired by a dire situation’: Benedict Kloeckner’s pandemic project
Cellist Benedict Kloeckner examines six commissions for solo cello composed during the first lockdown, each of which took inspiration from Bach’s Cello Suites
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ReviewConcert review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Leah Hollingsworth hears a Baroque Bach concert at Alice Tully Hall, New York, on 10 December 2021
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ReviewBook review: The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion
Janet Banks reviews British cellist Steven Isserlis’s thoughts on the history and performance of the famed solo cello suites
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FocusFour insights on the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 in G major
Have a read of what two cellists and two violists think about ‘that famous cello song’
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VideoYo-Yo Ma performs the Bourrées from Bach Cello Suite no.3
This rendition may be different from your grade 7 student’s version…
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FocusThe final five bars of the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite in D minor
Mats Lidström, the Leo Stern Professor of Cello at London’s Royal Academy of Music, examines the curious and sudden omission of rhythm and flow in the final five bars of Bach’s Prelude in D minor for solo cello, in this extract from the January 2022 issue
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FocusThe Strad Podcast Episode #20: Steven Isserlis on consulting musical editions and manuscripts
The cellist speaks about consulting the various surviving manuscripts of the Bach Cello Suites, as well as making bowing and fingering suggestions for the Dvořák Cello Concerto
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FocusPlaying along with Bach: composing descants for Bach’s cello preludes
Brian Forst writes about former White House violinist Peter Wilson’s journey to compose descant parts to Bach’s cello preludes - not only as a pandemic project, but as a gift for a special someone
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FocusA blank slate: recording Bach’s Cello Suites on viola
In this extract from January 1999, Simon Rowland-Jones shares the challenges encountered when recording Bach’s Cello Suites on viola
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Rachel Podger (violin)
Tim Homfray hears a performance from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 21 May 2021