Wednesday Bach Blogging: Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Suite No. 6


    From a 1983 concert in Tokyo, Japan, Yo-Yo Ma performs Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012.  Twenty eight minutes and thirty seconds of technical mastery, inspiration, and passion, the young Yo-Yo Ma shows why he is very likely the greatest cellist of our time, or indeed, any time.

Also, for those of us with shorter attention spans, here's another video tape recording from the 1980s, when Yo-Yo Ma met up with Fred Rogers (who was himself an accomplished musician and gifted songwriter) at Joe Negri's neighborhood music shop, and played the Buorree from Bach's Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: