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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 happened: 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 stories: 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, fueled 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.
The Cello Suites is an incomparable, beautifully written, true-life journey of passion, imagination, and discovery, fueled by the transcendent power of a musical masterpiece.