Bach Cello Suites
Best recording? How many versions? History?
Whats the mystery? Which to buy?
Although we won’t give you all the answers, hopefully you will find information on this web site which will help you
to come up with the right conclusion for you.
Introduction.
Thank you for checking out this web site which reflects our passion and curiosity about all things related to the Bach Cello Suites for solo Cello. Each of us has outlined in our personal profiles how we came to look upon this work as possibly the greatest ever written for any instrument let alone the cello.
The big idea.
Our thoughts to develop this web site, arose from the realisation of the huge number of recordings of this work that are currently available to the home listener. Due to the many varied interpretations by dozens of virtuoso cellists both current and past, it becomes difficult to select just one version. For us, this has developed into a major piece of work fuelled by the desire, (some would say obsession) to survey as many of the recordings of this work that we can source.
The process.
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