Michelle Bizzell's Reviews > The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
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A triple shot of Bach, combining a mini-biography of the composer with the story of how his now famous cello suites were lost amongst his papers and then rediscovered by a child prodigy in a used bookstore in Spain and Pablo Casals' journey to bring this music to the world. On top of the history is the author's story of researching the book and getting hooked on Bach himself. Despite skipping around between the various threads, it made for an enjoyable read. My experience was definitely enhanced by reading while listening along to the cello suites and some of the other pieces mentioned on Youtube, etc. Probably not a book I would recommend to someone who wasn't already a fan of the cello suites and might be repetitive if you are a Bach scholar, but if you too are somewhere in between this was interesting.
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August 13, 2022
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