On Tuesday, Alisa Weilerstein presented a concert of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major interleaved with five living composers. Who were they? Unless you grabbed a pamphlet-sized program on your ...

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 ...

“Bach's cello suites have been my constant musical companions. For almost six decades, they have given me sustenance, comfort, and joy during times of stress, celebration, and loss,” Ma said as he ...

The brand new DSD version of The Complete Bach Cello Suites by Zuill Bailey is now available from Octave Records as a download. I don’t care if you love classical music or not, but some recordings ...

In her determination to be interesting, the cellist Alisa Weilerstein has made herself perplexing. She is deeply immersed in “Fragments,” a multiyear mission in which she’s commissioning short pieces ...

Yo-Yo Ma’s two-year world tour of the complete Bach Solo Cello Suites is one of the great musical events of the century. It began in Colorado on Aug. 1, 2018 to a packed Red Rocks amphitheatre on a ...

The myths of classical music are layered with historical facts and romantic imagination. Pablo Casals, 1876–1973, a Spanish cello virtuoso, was no exception. It is often described how the 13-year-old ...

More: $25-$45. For more information, call (509) 326-4942 or go to nwbachfest.com. Northwest BachFest will celebrate its 44th year with an online concert series featuring selections from J.S. Bach’s ...

Matt Haimovitz is a gifted cellist, whose restless searching for different modes of communication and expression on the instrument has led him in many interesting directions. In his second time ...

As though the COVID-19 pandemic had never happened, bringing the normal patterns of life, and particularly those of the performing arts, to an eerie and threatening standstill, Zuill Bailey is back to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic. By Joshua Barone ...