[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.

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 ...

Cello virtuoso Alisa Weilerstein will never forget her very first instrument. The brand name was Kellogg. Growing up in a family of chamber musicians (father Don is a violinist; mother Vivian is a ...

J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 has been given the beatboxing treatment by a champion cello-boxer. Anyone who has ever tried to accompany themselves singing will know that musical multi-tasking is not ...

“You could be having more fun with the music – you look a little stressed". It’s a fair comment. But when you’ve just played the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 to the man whose award-winning ...

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 ...

Symphony No. 36, "Linz" Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer English Chamber Orchestra Symphony No. 38, "Prague" Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer English ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No I in G major is one of the most frequently performed and recognisable solo compositions ever written for cello. Yet it was virtually unknown for almost 200 years ...

German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser was in North America recently, playing Dvorák's Cello Concerto with the Toronto Symphony and, the following week, doing a residency at McGill University's ...