Cellist Erling Blöndal

Intimate lyricism

by James Leonard

posted 11/1/2003

Remember Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly? The Swedish director's meditation on madness presents life as unendurable, death as unbearable, and God as a malevolent spider just beyond the wall. Remember the music? How Bergman set the mood with snatches of Bach's C Minor Cello Suite, played with palpable but restrained despair? Well, the cellist in

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