This is a highly readable and entertaining book about Bach's Cello Suites which covers Bach's biography, that of the epic Cellist Pablo Casals who re-discovered the suites (his fabled recording was my entry into the Bach world), and the author's own research and fascination with Bach and the Suites. The Cello Suites is an incomparable, beautifully written, true-life journey of passion, imagination, and discovery, fuelled by the transcendent power of a musical masterpiece. This love affair leads Siblin to the back streets of Barcelona, a Belgian mansion, and a bombed out German palace to interviews with cellists Mischa Maisky, Anner Bylsma, and Pieter Wispelwey to archives, festivals, conferences, and cemeteries and even to cello lessons - all in pursuit of answers to the mysteries that continue to haunt this piece of music more than 250 years after its composer's death. Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic The first features Johann Sebastian Bach and the missing manuscript of his suites from the eighteenth century the second is that of Pablo Casals and his incredible discovery of the manuscript in Spain in the early twentieth century and the third is Eric Siblin's own infatuation with the suites in the twenty-first century. There, something unlikely he fell in love with a piece of classical music - Bach's cello suites. One autumn evening, shortly after ending a ten-year stint as a pop-music columnist for the Montreal Gazette, Eric Siblin attended a concert at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music.
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