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 -

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