This is FRESH AIR. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin are as big a test for a violinist as his cello suites are for a solo cellist. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says there are many ...

CAMBRIDGE — Bach’s Six Cello Suites are the beating, deep-souled heart of the cello repertoire. Cellists do not just perform the Suites and move on. They study them, internalize them, and map their ...

Finnish cellist and gamba player Markku Luolajan-Mikkola here offers not Bach’s cello suites but the solo violin sonatas and partitas, transposed deep into the bass register and played on a three ...

(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 Marco Serino, Violin (6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 1 in G, BWV1007 Marco Serino, Violin (6) Suites (Sonatas) ...

The major classical recording companies have commemorated the 250th anniversary of the passing of Johann Sebastian Bach with several new recordings and reissues. Teldec takes pride of place with its ...

WERE Bach’s famous cello suites and other works really written by his second wife, Anna Magdalena? That’s what Martin Jarvis, a professor at the Charles Darwin University school of music in Darwin, ...