Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass

Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass is a contemporary classical album released by the double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer. Throughout the album, Meyer plays 3 of JS Bach's famous Cello Suites. A unique aspect to this album is the fact that Edgar Meyer is performing these cello suites on a double bass, rather than a cello, which make the suites extremely difficult to play.

Artist:

Release Date:

  • 2000

Running Time:

  • 1 h 1 min 3 s

Musical Album

Artist

Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. His collaborators have spanned a wide...

Label

Sony Classical Records

Sony Classical Records was started in 1927 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of the American Columbia Records. In 1948, it issued the first long-playing 12" record. Over the next decades its artists included Isaac Stern, Pablo Casals, Vladimir Horowitz, Eugene Ormandy, Vangelis, Elliot...
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