J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites contain some of the most fascinating and beautiful movements in all of his oeuvre, and remain one of the most important works in the history of Western music. Jeffrey McFadden’s arrangements for guitar enhances the music, adding a harmonic dimension and making the implied interaction of voices explicit. Here’s an excerpt from the Prelude of Suite No. 4, with its opening of descending quaver patterns. “The playing is simply phenomenal.” (Gramophone) STREAM / BUY: Vol. 1 -

Bach’s stately Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 ranks among the Baroque composer’s most enduring and celebrated concertos. Its form and melodic sensibility demonstrates the influence of Bach's Italian contemporary Vivaldi, whose work Bach studied carefully and sometimes quoted directly. This December 2017 performance features Sean Lee as violin soloist, with Aaron Boyd (violin I), Chad Hoopes (violin II), Matthew Lipman (viola), Brook Speltz (cello), Anthony Manzo (double bass), and Michael