58 GSCENE OUT & ABOUT
I Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey
has recorded the Bach Cello Suites
twice before - so why again? Well,
he's reached his
50th birthday,
and after
exploring the
works in depth
with the help of
eminent Bach scholars, he has
more to say. Bach notoriously left
very little instruction for how the
suites should be played, not just
in terms of tempi or articulation,
but even the kind of instrument on
which to play them. So for this
recording, Wispelwey has recorded
them on a Baroque cello for the