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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The arrangement of violin sonatas and partitas, and the cello suites of Johan Sebastian Bach for solo double bass is a tasking and rare challenge, especially for improvising bassists. Classically ...

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 ...

Johann Sebastian Bach composed his Six Suites for Solo Cello in the early 1720's. Unlike the Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, composed around the same time, there is no extant autograph ...

With the release of his latest three CDs, pianist Richard Goode has now recorded all six Bach Partitas for keyboard. Fred Child of Performance Today visited with Goode to talk about each one of these ...

(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) ...

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, ...