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Anner Bylsma, an eminent Dutch cellist and a groundbreaking ... Image Mr. Bylsma produced a seminal recording in 1979 of the Bach cello suites played on a period instrument.Credit ...
Mr. Bylsma was known for his accounts of Bach's six suites for solo cello, and he played on a a variety of both modern and period cellos. Mr. Bylsma recorded Bach's suites twice, in both 1979 and ...
Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert recorded earlier this month at London's Wigmore Hall of the complete Bach ... and Anner Bylsma, Wispelwey is as comfortable on the Baroque cello as on the ...
Anner Bylsma (on Sony) shows that this style does not preclude clear rhetoric and an attractive sound. The one advantage baroque players have in this cycle is the use of a cello piccolo in Suite ...
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites ... but very different recordings of the first, G major Suite’s Prélude. Here first is Anner Bylsma’s refined and stately performance, as ...
What recording of Bach’s cello suites speaks to you most and for what reason? To me, the master for the Bach suite is Anner Bylsma. Bylsma, if the young generation don’t know him, is like the ...
the cello was still a relatively new instrument, largely relegated to background roles in ensembles. In this recording of the third suite by Anner Bylsma, who championed period instruments, Bach ...
He has just finished playing Bach ... “Anner’s continuous and evolving learning of those pieces was infectious.” During one visit, he noticed that one of Bylsma’s books on the suites ...
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 ...
Andrew Manze examines the six solo suites for cello by JS Bach, and the problems and decisions facing cellists as they approach the suites. He plays recordings by Casals, Fournier, Wispelwey ...
In the 1970s, the Dutch cellist, Anner Bylsma, followed Starker’s lead, but went farther — interpreting the Suites on a reproduction of an 18th-century cello that Bach himself might have ...
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 closest instrument to the human voice ...