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Session Report: cellist Anastasia Kobekina on recording the Bach Solo Cello Suites

2025-08-22T08:37:00

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Cellist Anastasia Kobekina tells Charlotte Gardner about her approach to recording the monumental Bach Solo Cello Suites, and how it has resulted in her most personal album to date

’Of course I was scared of the idea at first, but then I tried to take away the pressure and just dive into this music and the experience.’ Anastasia Kobekina is describing why and how she chose, for her second album with Sony Classical, Bach’s monumental – and much recorded – Cello Suites…

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