Category: Chamber & Solo
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Bach’s Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012
For 200 years they were finger exercises. Then one boy changed everything.
Pablo Casals was 13 when he found a dusty manuscript in a Barcelona secondhand shop. He practiced it for twelve years before playing a single note in public. Until then, the Bach Cello Suites were considered warm-up exercises. Casals turned…
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Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Bach wrote it as a sleeping pill. Gould turned it into a manifesto.
The count's insomnia legend is charming — and almost certainly invented, appearing 52 years after Bach's death. What actually changed the Goldberg Variations' fate was a 23-year-old Canadian pianist treating Bach less like a sleeping pill and more like a…