From The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin, subtitled J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece.
The great Mstislav Rostropovich, late in his career, with reluctance finally recorded all six of Bach’s cello suites. He explained his feelings about this. “I am now sixty-three years old. Only twice in my life have I recorded a Bach suite. Forty years ago I recorded the second suite in Moscow…and in 1960 I recorded the fifth suite in New York. In both cases I cannot forgive myself. I acted rashly.”
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