Alexandra Coghlan

Bach’s Cello Suites represent a spiritual meditation — from the Nativity to the Resurrection

It’s not a theory, the cellist Steven Isserlis insists, merely an ‘instinctive reaction’ — but it’s a striking argument

John Sebastian Bach (from Payne’s Universum, 1847). [Alamy]
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  • The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion

    Steven Isserlis

    Faber, pp. 240, £12

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