Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces. He takes on Bach's complex sonatas and partitas on his new album.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 1 in G, BWV1007 Jeffrey McFadden, Guitar (6) Suites (Sonatas) for Cello, Movements: No. 2 in D minor, BWV1008 Jeffrey McFadden, Guitar (6) Suites ...

January 2015. The violinist Johnny Gandelsman — Moscow-born, New York-based, and a member of such restlessly curious groups as the Silk Road Ensemble and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider — is on the ...

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, ...