On Nov. 21, Yo-Yo Ma offered a monumental gift to Boston and to himself: The complete six Bach cello suites, performed from ...

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 ...

"Compared with [J. S. Bach’s] six sonatas for violin without accompaniment, these violoncello solos are light and unpretending. Nevertheless, they are interesting, because they are Bach’s. The first ...

A great cellist, Bach’s beautiful prelude and an allegory to give us all hope. It's a difficult time. Countless people around the world are being impacted by uncertainty, disruption and loss caused by ...

<!-- 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 ...

Leading cellists explain the power - and their love - of Bach's Cello Suite No 1 in G Major. With Steven Isserlis. From 2015. Show more Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No I in G major is one of ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites are some of the most iconic classical music works. They have inspired not only ...

[As a 10-year old violin student, Antoine Tamestit 's initial encounter with Bach's suites for solo cello was "my first and most important musical emotion" and made him want to switch instrument.

Yo-Yo Ma performed three classics by Johann Sebastian Bach for NPR's Tiny Desk Concert, uploaded on on Friday (Aug. 17). By Starr Bowenbank Cello superstar Yo-Yo Ma performed three classics by Johann ...

You might expect a baroque German theorbo to be a more faithful vehicle for Bach’s solo cello music than a modern viola. But Hopkinson Smith’s approach to the first three suites goes much further than ...

Six Evolutions is Yo-Yo Ma’s third and ultimate recording of the Bach Cello Suites. These works first entered Yo-Yo Ma's life when he was four, learning the first bar of the Prélude to Suite No. 1 ...

Jensen's new album, In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness, is yet another captivating search for sound, and it may be her best yet. The surprise this time is that she lets her acoustic cello ...