A small-waisted, double-strung version of the guitar flourished in France, Italy and Spain in Bach’s day, though not in Germany. Bach never composed for it, but that has not stopped guitarists from ...

World-renowned classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk joins us in the studio, playing Bach’s cello suites on classical guitar. The classical guitarist Eliot Fisk in performance. (Courtesy the Artist/ ...

Because composers today aren't falling over one another to write music for the lute, lutenists occasionally engage in creative borrowing — adapting music meant for other instruments. Here, one of ...

Johann Sebastian Bach routinely rearranged his own earlier works into new works for different instruments. About ten years after he composed his Suite for Solo Cello #5 he transcribed it into his Lute ...

World-renowned classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk joins us in the studio, playing Bach’s cello suites on classical guitar. Washington Post: Guitarist Eliot Fisk impresses with his uncanny ability to ...