Yo-Yo Ma - Bach Cello Suite 1 IV. Sarabande

[kingofnothing553]

Thats how pimp yo yo ma is, he doesnt give a fuck where he plays once he starts ya'll listen!! Hahaha x)

[christagault1]

in the middle of the street!!!!!!????

[Awsomeaton]

great performance but posting needs different capture method.

[AShurnas]

Wonderful to listen to while doing studies or homework, thank you Yo-Yo Ma!

[rondomozart]

Does he have two cellos?

[uneedtherapy42]

his cello is so good he makes plant life perk up to listen to him

[timlyg]

I wonder what reaction would happen if Yo-Yo Ma plays in NYC subway station...

[thecellist98]

i have a question so anybody who knows please answer: i notice that he isnt holding his bow correctly not saying its incorrect but is that the baroque style of holding it?

[HotshotE7]

@thecellist98 he is holding it as if it were a baroque bow, since bows back then were shorter than the ones made today he is compensating by making his bow shorter, pretty common thing to do for baroque pieces

[thecellist98]

@HotshotE7 so if i play the 5th suite would i be okay on holding it the regular way?

[SilentSlumber3]

Yo ma ma would be a preferable name.

[CutiepieSmallfry]

well I've played the cello for about 5-6 years now and I could never hope to achieve anything like this... I'm a pretty good song writer though... hahaha

[carooros1969]

Music fills my soul ... exquisite sound of this wonderful instrument. Thanks

[duncandrake]

Great. Am unable to see the video because the bloody commercials say 'invalid parameters'. Thanks youtube! :(

[rwrehfeldt]

Luminously designed performance of coherence of paradox of sight and sound. Yo Yo Ma is...Yo Yo Ma...exquisite!

[aepceo1]

I admit to not liking this interpretation of Bach's Sarabande, but Yo-Yo Ma is still one of the best, if not THE best cellist on earth right now.

[RyanKaufman]

@aepceo1 What don't you like about it? To me the tempo is a little too quick, and I just prefer it played slow.

[aepceo1]

@RyanKaufman I'm the same.

[TheFrozen7]

his playing is amazing, but the background in this video is distracting and doesnt go with his playing

[Goatsemen]

@TheFrozen7 You failed the test then

[TheFrozen7]

@Goatsemen ohhh i see

[werdnabb]

type in pyo sinfonia to hear Arioso by Bach on violin.

[8332rats]

Some people just don't get it. It's about re-birth. Everything has been destroyed and the beauty of everything coming back. (such as ground zero and it re-birth) Very heady stuff.

[avemnevoiesideiarba]

i would've liked it more without the annoying background sounds

[samarsanderz]

Its so beautiful, its almost like the cello is crying.

[i3vAn36z]

Awesome Guy.

[Ryanbailine2010]

great song :0

[MickeyBug8]

I started this piece on Monday and I would love to be able to play this well. Hopefully when I go buy my new cello it will sound good. But I couldn't even imagine playing it like the genius Yo-Yo Ma!

[1993boxingchamp]

This piece is awsome but why the fucking annoying noise in the background. and the construction. Like wtf.

[StopTouchingMyFood]

nice vid, but audio compression is awful

[jorgeoscar1000]

this is liberal crap !!!

[xbasket12x]

@jorgeoscar1000 How dare you say to the master cellist, Yo-Yo Ma. You are inadequate and impudent

[samdajellybeenie14]

@jorgeoscar1000 why?

[ryanmhn]

Yes, Yo Yo Ma's music does make plants grow.

[fairman1952]

Piatigorsky, Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Bach. Kind of a "heaven on earth" kind of thing going on....

[xthemusicroomx]

Yo Yo Ma is boss.

[karennorwegian]

@xthemusicroomx Yes, he certainly is! You got that right!

[hamdemond1]

this music stops right before it makes me cry.

[AwesomeBirdSama]

beautiful interpretation and a really good video to support it.

I like that he plays it so 'simple' without making a big fuss about it, it almost has somehing zen-like in it.

[TheCommodore1989]

@clydehorse48: hmm maybe im a great musician with know-how, think about it, before you judge others......thanks for your comment, milkyway

[Tsuminc]

The cello is like a lone voice, drawing attention to things that go unnoticed in our busy world. Yo Yo Ma makes that voice sound so beautiful!

[LiveLaughLoves4Life]

@OCUBOX If you're looking for other cellists who are really good, check out Seeli Toivio. Just google her performance of David Popper's Dance of the Elves op.39 for cello and orchestra. She's incredible!! She makes it all look so easy...like child's play!! She's one of my favorites!

[trevormail]

Ma crush cello like cement

[TheCommodore1989]

hmmm DarkShines96, i know that the holding´s intentional, too. but, if you play an instrument, coating with a bow, unnecessary to tell wich one, it´s important to coat with a precise way of power. if you´re not able to do that, the sound wont fit, in the end. it could be some kind of scratching..... the point im trying to explain is, if you hold the bow nearer to its middle part, instead of holding it at the "frog", you wont be able to coat it precisely. my subjective arguments against yours.

[TheCommodore1989]

hey play150, try to investigate some pieces from bach played by mischa maisky or rostropovic for instance. you´ll see the difference how they hold the bow. in my opinion it´s a bit careless from you to make this allegation. by the way, how well are you trained in music?

[TheCommodore1989]

if i´m hearing classical music like bach from yoyo ma, then i dont want to get remembered to the gray normality in which we aer all living.

good piece. bad bow-holding from yoyo.

[play150]

@TheCommodore1989 lol the bow hold is probably intentional

[ClydeHorse48]

@play150 It is a bowhold consistent with baroque music. He is holding the bow higher up because it creates a lighter, airier tone. It makes it sound smoother too.

[play150]

@ClydeHorse48 Thanks for the info :)

I tried with my cello and it feels pretty different, but nice!

[DarkShines96]

@TheCommodore1989 the bow holding is intentional, that was how it was used during bach's time and how it was meant to be played...but to each his own ^^ 

[ClydeHorse48]

@TheCommodore1989 It is NOT bad bow-holding. You can criticize Yo-Yo Ma when you are the most famous cellist in the world. Go try and become more famous than Yo-Yo Ma. Thanks

[LivingintheShire]

@TheCommodore1989 You are so uneducated. His bow-holding and all around technique is excellent. Please tell me which string instrument you play and your qualifications before you judge Yo-Yo Ma.

[Embracus]

Yo yo ma makes one feel better. He's an enlightened being, I think.

[OCUBOX]

How come I never heard of YO YO MA? Dupre, Rostropovich etc but. . . well I will check him out this minute, great PLAYING!

[Harryro64]

@OCUBOX dude. hes the best cellist in the world (one of the best). You haven't heard of him?! Really? }:-/

[OCUBOX]

@Harryro64 Yep, I found Jacqueline du Pre and concentrated on getting all her recordings ever (what a great LOSS), so I guess I missed other cellist, apart from Yo Yo ma, know anyone else I could listen to? Thanks!

[Aqene1000]

Aural Medicine.

There is beauty in the destruction of the old, to make way for renewal.

Thankyou Mr Ma !

[XxZombiExSlayeRxX]

You guys just don't get it. He plays in those places to bring back genuine beauty to where beauty like that scarcely exist.

[dlee15081]

A couple of years ago I watched a movie named, 'Master and Commander: Far side of the world'. The Music of Bach was used in this movie, more so this Cello Suite. Absolutely beautiful and Yo Yo Ma is truly a very talented and gifted Artist.

[ThinkLikeACello]

1:05 for a second, i thought he had more fingers than 4 :) BUt, seeing as he is the Yo Yo Ma, it could be possible :)

[MsCellobass]

who cares if he plays in the middle of the street or construction? Why the ugliness??

[ffokazak]

leave the effing noise of the construction out . Any one who watches this is watching to hear the yo yo play....

[danveldor]

orden en el caos

[RandomKenzieTV906]

Does anyone here know how to play the cello, I'm going to start learning the cello on Friday. I want to get a head-start kinda cuz I'm bad at strings but I LOVE the cello and other string insturments and I wanna try meh best!

[FreemanFilms1]

@RandomKenzieTV906

Ive been playing the cello for 3 years now, and I love it! One thing I have to tell you, is that, if your instructer gives you tapes to guide your fingers, if you get either a bigger cello or just get a new one, dont put the tapes back on, because you'll get attached to them and people wont take you seriously if you play in public.

[tututu000111222]

a stunning performance.

ps.why choose this background? its got nothing to do with the music, as far as i'm concerned

[CrownedWithLaurels]

@tututu000111222 That's the point. It's about the contrast between the almost ethereal beauty of the playing and the ugly, functional sights and sounds surrounding him. I think it makes the music seem even more beautiful, if that's even possible.

[0sM1093]

@CrownedWithLaurels I think this is the best answer to that question

[simpleblackpiano]

@CrownedWithLaurels I think the construction is there to show the power of Ma's musice. It's sort of like the strengh of the breakings of the earth and rocks are equal to the strengh and the emotion from the piece of music.

[tututu000111222]

@CrownedWithLaurels Thanks for the explanation.i appreciated it

[bloodmoneyrox]

0:55-1:05 You could say.. *Puts on sunglasses*  this is ground-breaking.

[kjgoya777]

I had a yo-yo at school...and could do heaps of tricks...

[tututu000111222]

@kjgoya777 yoyo(ma) is the name of the celloist, not the toy which you can play and do tricks with!

[twihard201]

So beautiful!

[koreanarmadillo]

im playing this movement now...yo yo ma is the best! i love this guy

[zagatta]

Our greediness to build either to live and to do business destroys nature but nature never surrenders instead it tolls us what we have taken in good and bad ways.

[ashleingh]

I am inlove with someone who doesn't love me and this music is really not helping :(

[GlaciatedHeart]

Those plants expanding makes me itch....It looks so gross. But this is amazing. I love the cello

[lemaesealaturk]

Why does he grab the bow like a baroque bow???

[Violinater]

I was wondering the same thing too....

[Nickernackerwacker11]

Because he's Yo Yo Ma, and when you are as good as he is, you can play any way you want to. Until you can play like the Mighty Ma, you should not remark on his style.

[ceescake]

@Nickernackerwacker11, I agree, but it sounds like your saying that its not the way this should be played, but because he's YO YO MA he can play it that way. In reality this is the perfect style for this piece and because hes Yo Yo Ma he knows this and makes this song sound well.... BEAUTIFUL :D

[MusicsBrotherCam]

@Nickernackerwacker11 he is a musician and his style is up for critique do not be a blind follower

[nezvanova]

@lemaesealaturk

It is a baroque piece. I often hold my bow that way when performing Bach or Vivaldi etc, to imitate the softer tone of a baroque bow.

[MickeyBug8]

@lemaesealaturk Because the 1st cello suite by Bach is a baroque piece. XD

[masterknowlege]

why isnt there like 1000 people around him?

[Kagome259]

i feel honored to have the same last name as him, even though i'm not related to him T-T i love hearing this piece

[labelsr4soup]

I am in love with yo-yo ma. I can't believe how amazin he is!

[okbuthow]

what the heck is the front backround with the dirt trucks and all? Its not a dirty peace

[OMGpandaProductions]

he made videos to accompany the suites and make it fit in but i agree, why the dirt trucks

[Napoleon3535]

maybe to resemble the sadness it brings to see the tearing apart of our world?

[admit1person]

He is showing the destruction of what is built by man, replaced with the growth of nature. It is quite symbolic really.

[badllvlloon]

It's the symbolism of the video. Even in a crowed monotonous place like what you see in the video. The resonance of beautiful music can bring peace and joy to the world...

[chasec863]

why is he holding his bow so far up?

[swingingkris]

because that's the way to play Bach and other music from that century

[samuelferry]

A lot of bowed-instrument musicians try different bowing styles to adapt to the piece. Seeing as the Bach Cello Suites were written in a Baroque era, maybe he's trying to emulate a more Baroque bowing style.

[AfromDANy]

lol b/c he's yoyoma he can do that xD and b/c it helps to make the chord changes more smooth when your weight isnt at the very end of the bow

[D0g63rt]

The pine cones entered battle mode.

[plutowool]

Doesn't the video's statement come in at 1:34--- with the lebens-eigenschaft... the life-force of nature...? then at 2:38-- he's by the shore, and then the field, then back to the city? It's a conceptual art-piece-- & so, open to interpretation.... It puts us in a "class room"-- It provokes a question about what we humans are up to, doesn't it ?--- Again-- the miracle of ever-persistent life, how the reverie of musical enthrallment returns us there--the ache felt in the rich tones of Ma's cello

[kumbayasid]

One day when the windows were open, Christian Wolff played one of his pieces at the piano.

Sounds of traffic and boat horns were heard not only during the silences in the music, but, being louder, were more easily heard than the piano sounds themselves. Afterward, someone asked Christian Wolff to play the piece again with the windows closed. Wolff said he'd be glad to, but that it wasn't really necessary, since the sounds of the environment were in no sense an interruption of those of the music.

[long3000]

Is this whole construction there to advertise for their machines? Other than that the music should be left alone.

[fairplayguy]

I think the whole construction thing was interrupting the great music.

[xugoodness57]

I don't get the whole construction thing lol

[weezl007]

I have these dvd's - they are kind of like a mini documentary/project on each suite.

In the first suite, they are trying to collaborate with city planners to build a music themed park / garden. Hence construction.

[fantomas1962]

Right !! Pity they didn ´t listen to you !! I started reading from top to bottom and the commentaries about the machinery and then i found yours ! With wich i agree.

[cello3708]

at 1:05 where the heck is his head????

[viyolonsell]

harika

[hortyfifth]

lol

[s071302]

Music is an art form for hearing, adding visual part is a bonus for a better art

[dogtransport]

People are watching these for Bach, Yo-Yo Ma, or both. If I wanted to watch construction, I'd turn on Bob the Builder.

[dogtransport]

Anyway, watching a great cellist play is a much more enhancing visual.

[Dagrehn]

@dogtransport you are taking this clip out of context. if you see the documentary it makes sense.

[MusicForTheSoul221]

@dogtransport

I believe this video is showing that with music, the true beauty of this world can be restored.

[TZIYR]

@dogtransport i know a lot of people agree with you. ma wanted the two artistic mediums - music and film - to be parallel in his video

[TZIYR]

@dogtransport i know a lot of people agree with you. Ma wanted to have the two mediums of art - music and film - mirror each other, as another dimensional layer to the complexity of the suites

[exavian1]

@dogtransport Who cares just listen...

[Britslayer]

@dogtransport My question is, how is that calculator playing a cello?

[theuniversebecoming]

@dogtransport it's a resilient point; the contrast between a dead world of concrete buildings and the vital world of living grass and human soul

[pandadice]

you just don't get it

[dogtransport]

@pandadice Yeah, I really don't.

[jiyahc]

@dogtransport He this at the 1st anniversary for the September 11, so most likely it is in reference to that.

[doppelmof]

AAh!! ok ich hab mich schon gewundert xD

[doppelmof]

Schöne Interpretation aber ist sein Cello nicht viel zu tief gestimmt?!?

[urbanaked]

Barockstimmung: ~416Hz

[iDanMan94]

is he holding his bow rite????

[FieldMarhsall]

i wonder if one of the best celloist's alive is holding it "right"

[IsFaschtrigen]

Everyone has a way of holding their instrument. Depending on how comfortable it is for them+this is Yo Yo Ma, he does what he wants, he's a pro. (it's 1 thing if he's holding it upside down!!!!)

[violencelover89]

this is the boroque bow hold for cellists since bach was boroque it gives the strings better sound and not too hard

[MapleIsGood21]

hes right

he is choking up on it a little

[iDanMan94]

i wonder if the best "cellist" actually is

[FieldMarhsall]

?? what do you mean?

[iDanMan94]

you spelled it as celloist, its cellist thats all

[jamanticus]

He's holding his bow in the baroque style- it makes things lighter and fluffier when you hold it further up like that. His cello is also detuned to make the pitches like they would've sounded in Bach's time. So, yes, he's holding the bow right :P

[axisgirl]

great great great!!

the video and the playing are just wonderful!

I adore when music and art express theirselves in such an original and divine way.

[lyonsa68]

I agree

[retaliationtrigger]

yes as a matter of fact. grass does grow that quickly when yo-yo Ma plays the cello!

[tututu000111222]

@retaliationtrigger hahahhahahaha!!! wait, why the hell am i laughing?!

[Epmonito]

this means the place with construction needs soothing music from Yo yo

[soranzo4]

is consturtion work relaxing? plz reply

[julianoalberto]

Absolutely YES when you have Yo-Yo Ma playing on the background!

[soranzo4]

but wouldnt a river flowing or a waterfall be better?

[julianoalberto]

it surely would :-)

[ABEL1840]

yo-yo is the best..!

[retaliationtrigger]

nuhun bro! Rostropovitch is where its at! XD

[whenpigsfly2]

the background noise screws this experience up for me.. I guess I need no other distractions to hear everything I wasnt to in a piece... an out there question, does this make me weird? I saw this guy in concert with John williams (small brag!) amazing! the cello the virtuoso one, I don't see here is huge... a stradivarius so program said...Amazing musican and brainiac

[anthelize]

he he  esse video e criativo heim

[gigamax1978]

é sim.

você tem muito bom gosto. ;-)

byeeeee

[cellobaroquelove]

This is so great!

from 0:54 You can see how Yo Yo Ma holds the bow... lol

Do you have other parts of Suite 1 :eg gigue?

[Snakeandfunk]

yes... do you have the prelude of the 3rd suite o would love to see the video

[atralfalgar]

Thank you for posting this great video !

[yoyoloveT]

Thank you for posting!!