The 1963 Cello Symphony is perhaps one of the most forbidding and enigmatic of all Britten's works, hardly a repertory piece even now. Pieter Wispelwey's notes to his recording suggest he has a sense ...
For all his fluency in so many forms, Benjamin Britten was not at ease with the concerto, and they have not established themselves as have his vocal works. He avoided the term when writing the cello ...
(6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 1 in G, BWV1007 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Tanya Tomkins, Cello (6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008 Tanya Tomkins, ...
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 ...
This is bliss: the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1, played in a huge empty room by a phenomenal cellist. Cellist Peter Gregson is one of the world's most innovative cellists, regularly ...
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Six Evolutions is Yo-Yo Ma’s third and ultimate recording of the Bach Cello Suites. These works first entered Yo-Yo Ma's life when he was four, learning the first bar of the Prélude to Suite No. 1 ...
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 ...