As though the COVID-19 pandemic had never happened, bringing the normal patterns of life, and particularly those of the performing arts, to an eerie and threatening standstill, Zuill Bailey is back to ...

This is kind of an experimental show. Bach wrote six beautiful suites for solo cello, and I want to showcase two of them through interpretations by eight different cellists. The cello is probably the ...

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 ...

As he releases his third recording of Bach's suites for solo cello, we spoke to the great cellist about what this music means to him, and the world. In an exclusive interview, Yo-Yo Ma has told ...

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 ...

In her determination to be interesting, the cellist Alisa Weilerstein has made herself perplexing. She is deeply immersed in “Fragments,” a multiyear mission in which she’s commissioning short pieces ...

Latvian superstar cellist and conductor Margarita Balanas has taken her career to new heights, playing some beautiful Bach in a hot air balloon. Cellist Margarita Balanas is known for her stunning ...

These releases’ provocative titles suggest that Juliana Soltis and Mike Block are about to knock Bach’s Cello Suites off their iconic pedestal. Not quite, although both musicians approach their ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Alisa Weilerstein’s latest project is a series of staged solo recitals that weave Bach’s cello suites with newly commissioned works. By David Allen ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Warm, rich and lyrical, the cello is the instrument whose sound we often think of as closest to the ...