Bach’s six solo Sonatas and Partitas might be sacrosanct for violinists – the instrument’s Himalayas, George Enescu called them – but they’re regularly pinched by violists, lutenists, mandolinists and ...

One evening in 2000, the Canadian journalist Eric Siblin found himself pushing through the "shroud of stuffiness" at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. "I might have been searching for something ...

An evening of baroque music is set to captivate Limassol audiences. Virtuoso cellist August Krepak will present a solo evening on January 19, not in a theatre hall or a music bar but at a location ...

The remarkable story of six suites composed for cello by J.S. Bach in the early 1700s, Eric Siblin’s new book is at once a study of music, a work of history, and a passionate tribute. Siblin, the ...

An extraordinary two years for Anatasia Kobekina, who reaches a high point in September when Sony Classical releases the trailblazing cellist’s recording of Bach’s iconic Cello Suites on September 26, ...

There’s something mysterious about Bach’s cello suites. On the face of it they’re just sets of charming Frenchified courtly dances, like the thousands churned out in courts all over Europe in the ...

RATA-TUI: Julien Hainsworth of the Rata-Tui Duo plays his baroque cello. The instrument differs from its modern equivalent in that it is supported between the legs rather than by a spike. Picture ...

“When in doubt, cite Grout,” my mother said. She was referring to Donald Jay Grout’s “A History of Western Music.” First published by W.W. Norton in 1960, it has gone through 10 editions and is ...

One day in 1890, the 13-year-old Pablo Casals was mooching around Barcelona with his father when they went into a music shop. Prodigiously gifted, Casals was studying cello in the city, moonlighting ...