Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach

Inspired by Bach, a part of Sony Classical celebrates Bach series, presents contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach in collaboration with artists from different disciplines, in a set of six films.

Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach – Suite 1 – The Music Garden

THE MUSIC GARDEN opens the YO-YO MA: INSPIRED BY BACH series with an exploration of music as interpreted through gardening on a grand scale. The film follows the efforts of Yo-Yo Ma and landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy to create a formal garden, based on J.S. Bach’s First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello, in the centre of Boston.

Inspired by the music to reawaken the nature buried beneath the concrete of a modern city, Yo-Yo and Julie are a study in optimism as they set off to convince politicians, financiers, bureaucrats and planners to join in their great dream. Everywhere they […]

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