Track listing:

1. Suite No. 2 in D Minor
2. Suite No. 1 in G Major
3. Suite No. 5 in C Minor

Cellists had to relinquish their exclusive ownership of Bach’s cello suites long ago. Violists and guitarists have played them; Leopold Godowsky made lush arrangements of them for the piano; and Robert Schumann went so far as to attach newly composed piano parts to the originally unaccompanied cello. Now Edgar Meyer adds to this Bachian bounty, performing three of the six suites on the double bass. “There is a soulfulness to this music that I want to bring out,” Meyer has said, and his instrument…