Yo-Yo Ma maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras throughout the world and his recital and chamber music activities.
Ma strives to find connections that stimulate the imagination. Whether performing new or familiar works from the cello repertoire, coming together with colleagues for chamber music or exploring cultures and musical forms outside the Western classical tradition, Mr. Yo-Yo Ma’s multi-faceted career is testament to his continual search for new ways to communicate with audiences, and to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. was under the spell of a solitary searcher in the dark." (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) he was following his natural musical rhythms, to the point that it felt less like a performance than like an interior monologue.
Here, it was as if music had stilled the world. When a large audience is listening intently, it creates an atmosphere that cannot be measured or recorded, only remembered. Culture helps turn ‘them’ into ‘us.’ And these things have never been more important.” (Yo-Yo Ma) Culture helps us to imagine a better future. Music, like all of culture, helps us to understand our environment, each other, and ourselves. What power does this music possess that even today, after three hundred years, it continues to help us navigate through troubled times? Now that I’m in my sixties, I realize that my sense of time has changed, both in life and in music, at once expanded and compressed. For almost six decades, they have given me sustenance, comfort, and joy during times of stress, celebration, and loss. The suites collective vision at once divergent and coherent, empathic and objective reminds us of all that connects us despite an increasingly discordant public conversation.īach’s Cello Suites have been my constant musical companions.
What power does this music possess that even today, after three hundred years, it continues to help us navigate through troubled times?" Ma is more convinced than ever of the suites ability to create shared meaning that extends far beyond the here and now. "For almost six decades, they have given me sustenance, comfort and joy during times of stress, celebration and loss. "Bach's Cello Suites have been my constant musical companions," Ma writes of the music. Ma has never lost his initial fascination. Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Yo-Yo Ma's new album "Six Evolutions Bach Cello Suites", his third and final recording of these works.īach and his Cellos Suites entered Yo-Yo Ma s life when he was four, when he learned the first measure of the Prélude to Suite No. Info for Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Unaccompanied Cello Suite No.
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