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In her determination to be interesting, the cellist Alisa Weilerstein has made herself perplexing.
Theres nothing new about conscripting Bach into contemporary culture.
ButFragments 2felt more like the product of spinning the radio dial than a carefully chosen playlist.
Her playing is never wan or neutral, though it can sound hectoring.
And I admire her desire to keep expanding both her own and her instruments horizons.
More crucially, it wasnt clear how either Bach or his latter-day colleagues benefited from sharing a program.
