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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 ...

After the teenage Catalan cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973) found an edition of Bach's "Suites for Unaccompanied Cello" in a Barcelona music shop around 1890, he practiced for a dozen years before ...

THE CELLO SUITES: J. S. BACH, PABLO CASALS, AND THE SEARCH FOR A BAROQUE MASTERPIECE By Eric Siblin Atlantic Monthly Press, $24, 19 pages REVIEWED BY PRISCILLA S. TAYLOR There’s no question that the ...

Bach’s six suites for the solo cello are among the most iconic works of music ever composed. They have been played by the world’s greatest cellists, on disc and on film, at the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

<!-- missing image http://blogs.kcrw.com/rhythmplanet/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-spacer.jpg -->This is kind of an experimental show. Bach wrote six beautiful ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a series of six suites for the then most humble of instruments — the cello, or its ancestor. They were moving, mournful, joyous, rich with ...

The ironies of artistic genius and public taste are subtly explored in this winding, entertaining tale of a musical masterpiece. Music critic Siblin parallels short, fluent biographies of composer ...