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`Siblin's intricate book interleaves the stories of Bach, Casals, the suites themselves and his own research... It is always readable.' --Guardian
'Siblin's intricate book interleaves the stories of Bach, Casals, the suites themselves and his own research' --Guardian, February 2011
'his style is folksy and endearing'
--TLS, December 2010
`The story of Bach's six Cello Suites is an insightful narrative populated by musicians and myth, animating history through centuries' --The Good Book Guide
'Siblin's intricate book interleaves the stories of Bach, Casals, the suites themselves and his own research' --Guardian, February 2011
'his style is folksy and endearing'
--TLS, December 2010
`The story of Bach's six Cello Suites is an insightful narrative populated by musicians and myth, animating history through centuries' --The Good Book Guide
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The remarkable search to discover the truth about some of the greatest music ever written
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Too little has been written on Bach the man. Although I listen to his music probably every day I feel I know him much less intimately than Mozart. This book does much to put meat on the dry bones of history. Eric Siblin fell in love with the cello suites having become, it seems, rather jaded with the pop music he had been writing about for years. He is not the first to do that, but the author followed with a journalistic investigation of their origin, disappearance, rediscovery, their long exploration by Pablo Casals and their journey through the modern world. The result is an entertaining and informative read that I will return to, possibly through life. Music that will never die, the cello suites constantly refresh and this book is a fine accompaniment.
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Eric Siblin, a relapsed pop music writer, stumbles upon a performance of three of Bach's Cello Suites, is hooked and embarks upon a voyage of discovery. That investigation is one thread of a cleverly-constructed book.
A second thread provides a truncated biography of Johann Sebastian and his family. This includes speculation that the fifth suite may have been written for a strange instrument like a cello but with a fifth string.
The third thread is a truncated biography of Pablo Casals, the greatest cellist of the 20th Century and himself the discoverer by chance of the score of the Suites.
Siblin suffers from having become an obsessive; his musical grail has become these six suites. He has listened to many recordings, not all of them for the cello. He has talked to some of the musicians who have played them. He has read extensively about Bach, about Casals,and about the cello. But he lacks perspective. There is no sense that he has arrived where he is, as it were, from the outside in, from an awareness of so much other music, by Bach himself and his contemporaries and successors.
Nevertheless, with that reservation, it makes a good tale, if not a serious contribution to musicology.
A second thread provides a truncated biography of Johann Sebastian and his family. This includes speculation that the fifth suite may have been written for a strange instrument like a cello but with a fifth string.
The third thread is a truncated biography of Pablo Casals, the greatest cellist of the 20th Century and himself the discoverer by chance of the score of the Suites.
Siblin suffers from having become an obsessive; his musical grail has become these six suites. He has listened to many recordings, not all of them for the cello. He has talked to some of the musicians who have played them. He has read extensively about Bach, about Casals,and about the cello. But he lacks perspective. There is no sense that he has arrived where he is, as it were, from the outside in, from an awareness of so much other music, by Bach himself and his contemporaries and successors.
Nevertheless, with that reservation, it makes a good tale, if not a serious contribution to musicology.
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That's has been a real pleasure to read this book.
The story is good and it is difficult to switch the light off and go sleeping.
The research and the documentation work is well done. We meet there among other great musicians Pablo Casals, Yo Yo Ma... I stop there, just download it and start the journey from the very beginning of "The Bach Suites".
A great "Thank You" to Eric Siblin.
PhV.
The story is good and it is difficult to switch the light off and go sleeping.
The research and the documentation work is well done. We meet there among other great musicians Pablo Casals, Yo Yo Ma... I stop there, just download it and start the journey from the very beginning of "The Bach Suites".
A great "Thank You" to Eric Siblin.
PhV.
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