World-renowned classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk joins us in the studio, playing Bach’s cello suites on classical guitar. The classical guitarist Eliot Fisk in performance. (Courtesy the Artist/ ...

Bach’s cello suites are among the best known works of classical music, now risking popularization to the point of fatigue as they provide background music for cat food commercials. But one hundred and ...

On Tuesday, Alisa Weilerstein presented a concert of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major interleaved with five living composers. Who were they? Unless you grabbed a pamphlet-sized program on your ...

Bach’ s Cello Suites remained stubbornly off-limits to me until I read Eric Siblin’s affectionate, rambling book, The Cello Suites: In Search of a Baroque Masterpiece. I’m now a convert; after ...

When asked if there was a story behind his new two-CD set, cellist Andre Laurent O’Neil replied, “I was in fifth grade…” Yes, that sounds like he’s got a story to tell. And it comes as no surprise, ...

In a rare case of a reality even tastier than its title, “Bach and Brew” is tuned up to surface Sunday evening (Aug. 21) in Seattle’s Machine House Brewery. The brainchild of Oberlin ...

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 ...

Matt Haimovitz is savvy and provocative, which aren't the usual adjectives used to describe a fine cellist. Yes, he has wonderful liquid tone on the cello, as well as a flair for both lyric beauty and ...

The world of classical music can be inaccessible. Instruments are difficult to learn, lessons are expensive, and it is arguably less immediate than pop or rock. But cellist, composer and singer Abel ...

Classical music can feel daunting to dig into if you haven't had a lot of exposure to the genre or didn’t grow up playing an instrument. With so many terms, styles, composers and performers, it can be ...

This month, J.S. Bach would be 329 years old, and while the number itself doesn’t represent any particular milestone, any excuse for a celebration of the great composer’s work is always welcome. It is ...