Mr. Bylsma’s 1979 recording of the Bach suites was widely credited with being the first performed on a period instrument using gut strings, which were typical of cellos of earlier eras.

A pupil of both William Pleeth and Anner Bylsma, ... performing the works that are considered by many to be the pinnacle of the cello repertoire. Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV1007; Cello Suite ...

Dutch cellist and prominent figure in the early music movement, Anner Bylsma, died at the age of 85 on July 25 in Amsterdam, according to The New York Times.

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 ...

To me, the master for the Bach suite is Anner Bylsma. Bylsma, if the young generation don’t know him, is like the Master Yoda of the cello. In his interpretation every second is a discovery of ...

Jean-Guihen Queyras / Bach Cello Suite in D PT 2 / Bach Cello Suites / Harmonia Mundi; Anner Bylsma / Bach Cello Suite in D PT 3 / J. S. Bach Suites for Violoncello Solo BWV / Sony Classical; Anner ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites are some of the most iconic classical music works. They have inspired not only cellists and audiences but other artforms as well, and they have been ...

In this recording of the third suite by Anner Bylsma, who championed period instruments, Bach’s sense of adventure and discovery radiates from each phrase. Cello Suite in C Anner Bylsma, cello ...

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 ...

With a sly smile, the violinist obliges by playing the first bar of Bach’s Third Cello Suite. ... It was actually a different cellist, Anner Bylsma, who provided the inspiration.

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 ...