num_pages: 336
description: 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. There something unlikely he fell in love with a piece of classical music -- Bach's cello suites. 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.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.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.
language: English
title: The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
publisher: House of Anansi Pr