The Cello Suites

Eric Siblin’s “The Cello Suites” is an intriguing fusion of mystery, music history, and biography. Three stories are interwoven throughout it: the creation of Bach’s suites and their subsequent disappearance in the eighteenth century; Pablo Casals’s discovery and popularization of the music in the late nineteenth century; and Siblin’s obsession with the suites in the twenty-first century. The book takes readers on an epic voyage that reveals three centuries of politics, intrigue, and emotion, propelled by the force of these musical masterpieces.