THE CELLO SUITES

The ironies of artistic genius and public taste are subtly explored in this winding, entertaining tale of a musical masterpiece. Mus ic critic Siblin parallels short, fluent biographies of composer Johann Sebastian Bach, whose six suites for solo cello were long di sparaged as minor student exercises, and cello virtuoso Pablo Casals, whose landmark recording of the pieces catapulted them into th e classical canon. Their lives are a study in contrasts: Bach is an obscure workaday musician who feels wasted being merely the cant or of a ...[Read more]