A major new recording of the Bach Cello Suites from Inbal Megiddo, the New Zealand-American cellist, released in December 2025 on the Atoll label. Born in Germany, a student and the assistant of Aldo Parisot at Yale, she is now Head of Cello at the NZ School of Music, performs all over the world, and stamps her own very fresh and fluid interpretation upon these behemoths of the cello repertoire.
She also has this wonderfully fresh way of conceiving of the suites – as a life-cycle, as charting a course through life. And of course they chart a course through her life. Inbal Megiddo talks to Charlotte Wilson on the phone from New Zealand about her history with Bach, the history of the suites, how she arrives at her interpretation, about joining the pantheon of mostly male interpreters – from Pablo Casals on – and about keeping them alive and human
Bach Cello Suites
Inbal Megiddo
Atoll Records
www.atoll.co.nz
