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VideoYo-Yo Ma duets with TM Krishna
After a discussion on art and culture at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, what starts out as a performance of Bach’s Cello Suite No 3 in C Major ends up as a spontaneous duet between Yo-Yo Ma and the Carnatic music vocalist and social commentator TM Krishna. Ma was ...
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VideoYo-Yo Ma plays Bach in globally sourced video
In this video, Yo-Yo Ma explores the universal resonance of Bach through user-generated footage. The video integrates Ma’s performance of the Prélude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 with footage contributed in response to the prompt ‘Show the world how you express yourself and what brings your community together.’ It ...
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VideoYo-Yo Ma performs in Montréal metro
The Chinese-American cellist gives a free concert in the Montréal metro, including a Leonard Cohen singalong.
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VideoYo-Yo Ma performs Bach to dignitaries
The cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs the Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite No 5 to world leaders in Paris on Sunday as part of the events marking the centenary of the Armistice.
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NewsYo-Yo Ma and Renaud Capuçon mark Armistice with Ravel
The musicians performed to nearly 70 heads of state and a television audience of millions
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VideoYo-Yo Ma: Why Bach is relevant in the 21st century
Yo-Yo Ma appears on The Andrew Marr Show, the BBC’s Sunday morning current events programme.
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FocusCello journey: the best recordings of Ernest Bloch's Schelomo
Intended to be played as a seamless integrated whole, with an equality between the cellist and the orchestra, rather than as a concertante piece, Bloch’s Hebraic rhapsody Schelomo has been recorded by many cellists in numerous ways – and it seems that there is something special about almost all ...
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FocusYo-Yo Ma on making artistic connections and raising balanced musicians
This month Yo-Yo Ma returns as artistic director of his Chinese education initiative Youth Music Culture Guangdong, a programme that aims to create balanced, astute and connected musicians. Charlotte Smith explores the ideas behind the cellist’s approach
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ReviewBach Trios – Bach: Trio Sonata no.6 in G major BWV530; Prelude no.19 in A major BWV864; Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV645; Fugue no.20 in A minor BWV889; Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV639
The Strad Issue: September 2017Description: Boundary-crossing Bach played on an unlikely combination of instrumentsMusicians: Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Chris Thile (mandolin, guitar) Edgar Meyer (double bass)Composer: Bach Catalogue Number: NONESUCH 7559 79392-0 A trio formed of cello, double bass and mandolin may seem an unlikely combination ...
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NewsYo-Yo Ma to the rescue – lost puppy found after cellist’s intervention
Tanglewood Festival audience passes the word on and conductor David Zinman is reunited with four-month-old Havanese
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NewsCellist Yo-Yo Ma steps in to save floating concert hall
Designed by Louis Kahn, the concert boat was constructed in 1976 and has travelled around America and Europe for 50 years, operated by conductor Robert Austin Boudreau
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ArticleViolinist Isaac Stern and cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform the Brahms Double Concerto
A 66-year-old Isaac Stern performs Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, op.102, with Yo-Yo Ma and the NHK Symphony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo in 1986. Watch: Isaac Stern on what makes an artist Watch: Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin perform Brahms Watch: ...
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