🎻✨ The Prelude to Cello Suite No. 4: Finding the Story

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🎻✨ Two types of gigues in Bach’s Cello Suites

🎻✨ Imaginative new cello sounds inspired by Bach’s suites 🔗 Links in the comments.

🎻✨From Bach to Blood+ and beyond, discover how the Cello Suites echo throughout anime and J-POP. 🔗 Links in the comments. #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello #anime #neongenesisevangelion #bloodplus #hyouka

How might Bach’s Cello Suites have been influenced by French-style pièces de viole? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

How might the earliest Cello Suites performances have sounded? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

How can we choose a tempo for preludes and dances from Bach’s Cello Suites? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

Pablo Casals was famously the first cellist to record all six Cello Suites. Who were the first cellists to perform the complete cycle in concerts? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

New books really are music to our ears! 🎵 We're thrilled to have so many new releases from @universitypress.cambridge.org including 'Bach: The Cello Suites' by @@eklorman.bsky.socialas a part of the new Cambridge Music Handbooks series! 📚 Find all our new books here: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ZNM6Wo

J. S. Bach’s Enigmatic Suites for Solo Cello 🎻🎵 cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello cambridgeblog.org/2025/09/j-s-...

Today, Bach’s Cello Suites are widely revered as exquisite concert repertoire. But what did their first audiences make of them? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

Trailer for Bach: The Cello Suites (preorder now, available mid-September). More iat www.Bach-The-Cello-Suites.com #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

How do you interpret the meaning across the cycle of six Cello Suites? For nearly a century, cellists such as Steven Isserlis and Yo-Yo Ma have shared their personal interpretations, images, and associations. #cello #jsbach #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

Do J. S. Bach’s sarabandes always accent the second beat? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

What does it take for the movements of a suite to belong together? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

Why have Bach’s Cello Suites been used so widely beyond the concert hall as expressions of humanitarian advocacy? Links in the comments: to Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie and Denys Karachevtsev in the heavily bombarded streets of Kharkiv. #cello #jsbach #classicalmusic #bachcellosuites

Bach was the first German to compose suites for unaccompanied cello, but he drew from a long tradition of unaccompanied violin music. How did that style influence the Cello Suites? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

Watch historical cellist Hervé Douchy perform using the “underhand” bow hold. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfb3... #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

tinyurl.com/5xpyad3t Have a listen to Annlies Schmid, a protégée of Emanuel Feuermann. Her 1960 album is the earliest known recording of Cello Suite No. 6 on a five-string instrument, as it was originally conceived. Can you guess when the practice of playing on a five-string cello was first revived?

The Courante from Cello Suite No. 5 has metric and rhythmic features that distinguish it from those of the other five Cello Suites. How do you prefer to count the beats? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

Interview about Bach: The Cello Suites www.classicalmusiccommunications.com/cmc-coverage...

When did Bach compose the Cello Suites? Why is this question so complicated? #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #newmusic #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello

Have a listen to baroque violinist Rachel Podger performing Prelude to Cello Suite No. 2: tinyurl.com/3jkrbh7t

Have a listen to baroque cellist Jessica Korotkin performing her Suite in E Minor: #cello #jsbach #baroque #baroquemusic #newmusic #NewMusicMonday #classicalmusic #cellosuites #cellosuite #bachcellosuites #bachcello tinyurl.com/k5kdfs8b

Yo-Yo Ma addresses the question: "Why do cellists play Bach Suite No. 1 in every movie?" tinyurl.com/4ts2fztd

Are Bach's courantes always "running," or are they ever more "flowing"?

Bach’s Fugue in G Minor for Violin and Continuo was written c. 1712, when he was mostly known as an organist. Its virtuoso violin technique incorporates double stops and polyphony, anticipating the style of Bach’s later solo violin and cello fugues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxh0...