For us cellists, Bach’s Suites are pieces of music, with which we can challenge ourselves everyday of our lives aware that we would never reach a satisfactory result; and I believe this is their fascination. Composed between 1718 and 1723, they are so far from us, from the modern playing technique and from the peculiarities of the modern cello, that in reproducing them we have to face different problems not only of interpretative, but above all of technical and philological nature.

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