I am from Alaska and I have deep indigenous ancestry here, (settler and indigenous) and I would never call any other place in this world in my home, though I am well traveled. This piece moved my heart, and the way it was presented is a beautiful remark and statement upon the way it has changed, even from when I was a child. Thank you, Yo-Yo Ma and everyone who made this happen, I am grateful for our home to be shown in such a bittersweet beautiful way. I have been a fan of yours since the early PBS days from childhood.
This is very powerful synthesis of the beauty of music and the power of the cause. Thank you, Yo-Yo Ma for making this planet a better place to live on!
@@nancychace8619 reading the video description may help you. I think this video is about paying attention to the nature around us and taking better care of it. It was posted for Earth Day.
The d minor prelude is solemn, dark, melancholic, introspective, and mournful. By the end, it also refreshes the spirit and for that I am grateful to J.S. Bach for this music.
Yoyo Ma inspired me to learn the violin at age 9 before I even knew his name… thanks to a school field trip to listen to him… all by himself at the Guzman Hall in downtown Miami…over 50 years ago..he is truly an amazing treasure to humanity
THANK YOU SO MUCH YO-YO MA! I’m Alaskan native, and my family is from lower tanana! I appreciate that you came to alaska! I’ve been a fan of your work for a few years and it truly makes me happy that you came to alaska :) happy earth day 🌎 🌱
@NeonMyloXyloto Thank you for the information I've followed YoYo for many years. My children would hear a Led Zeppelin album playing and next a Yo Yo compilation. Both pleased them 😊 They've developed a love for classical music in general, which pleases me. And now my grandchildren are also listening. Although I have not seen him in person unfortunately, he has been instrumental (pun intended) in making classical music available to people who may not have been interested in that particular genre of music, in a way few others have. I sigh when I hear him play, sort of like exhaling the days trials and just listening to a master.
@@rhijulbec1I love reading posts like this. My parents introduced me to Bolero, The Music Man, Muddy Waters and ELO all in the same week when we got a new stereo. I was 3 1/2 at the time and I just turned 50 and I still remember hearing that music for the first time. It opened my mind to all music not just what was playing on the radio. Those are some of my favorite memories. And I bet those are some of your kids favorite memories too.❤
When I was a baby my mom said yo yo ma was the only thing that would relax me. Now I sit here holding my second child finding she was right it lulls him to sleep so peacefully.
@@CatyBee This is one aspect of of music and the filters of perception I suppose. Depending on circumstances it triggers different emotions in/ has different meanings for/ gives different things to different people.
@@CatyBee No. Thanks. This might be right for you. I actually do not share this view on things. I rather decide for myself what I want and need and what not.
@@CatyBee I can relate to that. I too attempted to be empathetic and nice in a lot of different ways. A lot of the times only to find out that things don't work the way I thought they do.
Yo-Yo Ma’s exquisite playing of Bach’s Prélude from Suite No. 2. A beautiful but haunting landscape. Thank you for raising awareness about environmental issues in Alaska.
As if we have been there before, no matter how dark or heavy; we will go through again no matter how crazy or brutal it is now. Dear Ma yo-yo, you shed some light and hope for us through reflection of past. Mother Earth hears you, she knows there are many beautiful souls still. Thank you!
Yo-Yo Ma is amazing. That is such not enough way to explain this performance, where he played it, and why he did it. Why he did this for us. Thank you so so much!
Thank you Yo Yo,along the same lines a young organist has been going around rural churches in England and playing the organ.Ben Maton plays with all his heart just like Yo Yo and honors the places and people and prayers that were sent up over the centuries.We need to honor these sacred places and no better way than to bring back music to these areas.
Although your hair color has changed, your beautiful music is still as youthful and beautiful as ever. Thank you for bringing beautiful colors to this world.😊
Bach, prelude, You, nature of Alaska ... Great performance dear Yo Yo. Wonderful! Amazing! Enjoed your palaying and Bach... Thank you both:) God bless You! My full support! Sub! and best regards!
I found so creative this interpretation of a deep composition from Bach in the midst of a gray tree trunks' bed, with the unique expression of Yo Yo Ma, within the global sadness of what is happening in the world. It reminds me THE PIANIST when he started to play in the aftermath of the war, that scene, that face. The Princess' message is the cherry on top. Thanks, Yo Yo Ma 🩶💚🍀🍀
What hurts my heart is the fact that he might only be with us for a few years. He inspired me to play cello. He is the reason I finished a level 8 exam in cello from playing for only 2 and a half years. ( I did have experience with the piano though) I hope he continues to bless us with beautiful music
Yo-yo Ma ha logrado interpretar el sentir, de los días grises y fríos que vive nuestro planeta, a través del preludio N° 2 de Bach...no es una casualidad en él, haber elegido Alaska y su frío para reflejar una cierta deseperanza😢 me encantó su interpretación maestro!
The land appears to me to be clearcut, and trying to regrow. The living things here- with this music everyday - feels like sacred encouragement to grow and grow.
No existe en la música ninguna combinación de ornamento que el músico genio no sea capaz de reproducir. Busca la forma más enérgica del color de la música el contenido es maravilloso para el mundo!!! Gracias maestro. ❤❤❤
Absolutely stunning! Your episode on The West Wing is still one of my absolute favorites and my parents are big fans. I'm gonna send this to them right away!
Esos árboles muertos...este Preludio, como un rezo... esta interpretación desde el alma... siento la mano sanadora del arte para salvar a este planeta...Gracias Maestro Yo-Yo Ma...
I am from Alaska and I have deep indigenous ancestry here, (settler and indigenous) and I would never call any other place in this world in my home, though I am well traveled. This piece moved my heart, and the way it was presented is a beautiful remark and statement upon the way it has changed, even from when I was a child. Thank you, Yo-Yo Ma and everyone who made this happen, I am grateful for our home to be shown in such a bittersweet beautiful way. I have been a fan of yours since the early PBS days from childhood.
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This is very powerful synthesis of the beauty of music and the power of the cause. Thank you, Yo-Yo Ma for making this planet a better place to live on!
Hey Cellopedia! Love your vids!
Agreed! Next in Ukraine and on the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russian territory please. 🙏🙏
Listen and shut up with your planet problems.
The "cause"? Could you please elaborate?
@@nancychace8619 reading the video description may help you. I think this video is about paying attention to the nature around us and taking better care of it. It was posted for Earth Day.
we are fortunate to be alive at the same time as this man.
a completely realized enlightened soul sharing his gifts of bliss
@@jenniferpatt4355 exactly
Siiii,tienes toda la razón!!!
@@jenniferpatt4355 you're right ✅
Agreed, friend!! 🎉
Two great Masters, Bach and Yo Yo Ma, such melancholy beauty!
And Mother Nature?
Την αγάπη μου από Ελλάδα
Yo-Yo Ma is a genuine national and global treasure!
The d minor prelude is solemn, dark, melancholic, introspective, and mournful. By the end, it also refreshes the spirit and for that I am grateful to J.S. Bach for this music.
Yoyo Ma inspired me to learn the violin at age 9 before I even knew his name… thanks to a school field trip to listen to him… all by himself at the Guzman Hall in downtown Miami…over 50 years ago..he is truly an amazing treasure to humanity
My daughter in 4 th grade got his autograph after a concert in Toledo Ohio. She took up the violin and now as an adult she plays very well.
Absolutely beautiful! The perfect Earth Day performance.
Yo-Yo Ma + Bach + woods of Alaska = ❤❤❤❤❤
I love how he lets his surroundings flow into what he gives us
THANK YOU SO MUCH YO-YO MA! I’m Alaskan native, and my family is from lower tanana! I appreciate that you came to alaska! I’ve been a fan of your work for a few years and it truly makes me happy that you came to alaska :) happy earth day 🌎 🌱
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His performances are mesmerizing & he conveys emotion in how he plays. I'm from Kampala Uganda and his work always brings a smile to my face.
The prelude of Bach's suite 2 is one of Yo Yo Ma's first piece he ever performed on stage when he was little
@NeonMyloXyloto
Thank you for the information
I've followed YoYo for many years. My children would hear a Led Zeppelin album playing and next a Yo Yo compilation. Both pleased them 😊
They've developed a love for classical music in general, which pleases me. And now my grandchildren are also listening.
Although I have not seen him in person unfortunately, he has been instrumental (pun intended) in making classical music available to people who may not have been interested in that particular genre of music, in a way few others have. I sigh when I hear him play, sort of like exhaling the days trials and just listening to a master.
@@rhijulbec1I love reading posts like this. My parents introduced me to Bolero, The Music Man, Muddy Waters and ELO all in the same week when we got a new stereo. I was 3 1/2 at the time and I just turned 50 and I still remember hearing that music for the first time. It opened my mind to all music not just what was playing on the radio. Those are some of my favorite memories. And I bet those are some of your kids favorite memories too.❤
Magnificent. Handsome birch set in the beauty and mystery of Aladka . Thank you for your music.
You are right ✅
When I was a baby my mom said yo yo ma was the only thing that would relax me. Now I sit here holding my second child finding she was right it lulls him to sleep so peacefully.
This is such a special comment! Thank you for sharing your authentic experience.
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I love Yo Yo Ma’s connection to nature. A truly beautiful performance
As soon as this started I completely relaxed. Almost all of the tension left my body.... Thank you!
Bravo my favorite cellist!
Cello is music of the heart and soul.
ヨーヨー・マさん、チェロ、バッハの音楽、自然、地球、宇宙、スタッフの方達、全てが美しく一体となり私の心を震わせます。
So relaxing listening to the beauty of this masterpiece, especially performed by Yo-Yo Ma, who is one with both music and nature.
Beautiful performance Yo Yo. Moving and embracing.
Дякую, Yo-Yo Ma! Чудова музыка, чудове виконання! Успіхів у творчості!❤️🇺🇦
This profoundly mirrors my current feelings of sadness, grief, sorrow.
@@CatyBee This is one aspect of of music and the filters of perception I suppose. Depending on circumstances it triggers different emotions in/ has different meanings for/ gives different things to different people.
@@CatyBee No. Thanks. This might be right for you. I actually do not share this view on things. I rather decide for myself what I want and need and what not.
@@CatyBee I can relate to that. I too attempted to be empathetic and nice in a lot of different ways. A lot of the times only to find out that things don't work the way I thought they do.
Thank you! Powerful. I bet the white birches were happy to be serenaded.
Pure beauty…
Wow! The calmness of this piece. Thank you, Yo-Yo Ma
Thank you for reminding me that there is still so much beauty in our humanity.
Yo-Yo Ma’s exquisite playing of Bach’s Prélude from Suite No. 2.
A beautiful but haunting landscape.
Thank you for raising awareness about environmental issues in Alaska.
As if we have been there before, no matter how dark or heavy; we will go through again no matter how crazy or brutal it is now. Dear Ma yo-yo, you shed some light and hope for us through reflection of past. Mother Earth hears you, she knows there are many beautiful souls still. Thank you!
❤I love his way of playing ❤
magnifique , on EARTH DAY, thank you 🙏
@Yoyomamusic007 thank you so much, wonderful to read you 🙏 your music makes everybody feel good
Yo-Yo Ma is amazing. That is such not enough way to explain this performance, where he played it, and why he did it. Why he did this for us. Thank you so so much!
Thank you Yo Yo,along the same lines a young organist has been going around rural churches in England and playing the organ.Ben Maton plays with all his heart just like Yo Yo and honors the places and people and prayers that were sent up over the centuries.We need to honor these sacred places and no better way than to bring back music to these areas.
The depth of that cello is astounding.
Yo Yo Ma + nature = best combo
深沉苍凉中透着悲悯细腻，人、景、音乐，浑然天成。
Unmatched beauty of the nature, Bach and talented musician. What more can you ask for in the name of heavenly divine…
Places us as part rather than apart from Nature. Thank you❤😊
So beautiful like nature itself ! Such a gift to all who see and hear !
Beyond beautiful I'm still stoked and privileged to have seen Ma perform Bach in NZ 2019 (seems like just the other day not 5 years AGO)
The most beautiful cellist
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Although your hair color has changed, your beautiful music is still as youthful and beautiful as ever. Thank you for bringing beautiful colors to this world.😊
為何聽著聽著眼淚在打轉，整個人進入一種放空的模式，這音樂有一種魔力❤❤❤非常喜愛❤❤❤
@Yoyomamusic007 我很好，謝謝您，很喜歡您的音樂，希望還能在台灣聽您的音樂會💕💕💕
Three of my favorite things all on one place 💚💚💚💚💚
Mr. Bach, you make this world divine!
Bach, prelude, You, nature of Alaska ... Great performance dear Yo Yo. Wonderful! Amazing! Enjoed your palaying and Bach... Thank you both:) God bless You! My full support! Sub! and best regards!
Yo-Yo!!! You're a rockstar! Exquisite. Thank you
I found so creative this interpretation of a deep composition from Bach in the midst of a gray tree trunks' bed, with the unique expression of Yo Yo Ma, within the global sadness of what is happening in the world. It reminds me THE PIANIST when he started to play in the aftermath of the war, that scene, that face.
The Princess' message is the cherry on top.
Thanks, Yo Yo Ma 🩶💚🍀🍀
The birches, the breeze, Bach... Thank you, Yo-Yo Ma, for bringing to us these gifts from the gods. Treasures!
Lovely
What hurts my heart is the fact that he might only be with us for a few years. He inspired me to play cello. He is the reason I finished a level 8 exam in cello from playing for only 2 and a half years. ( I did have experience with the piano though) I hope he continues to bless us with beautiful music
I started watching him play violin on PBS since I was 5. Don't really look too deep into this kind of music, but even I know he's an amazing musician.
Exquisite, I learned to play this a few years back. I must go back and find it again, this music and Yo Yo’s playing is an homage to being human.
Yo-yo Ma ha logrado interpretar el sentir, de los días grises y fríos que vive nuestro planeta, a través del preludio N° 2 de Bach...no es una casualidad en él, haber elegido Alaska y su frío para reflejar una cierta deseperanza😢 me encantó su interpretación maestro!
My heart moves with your cello.
Magnífico, sublime y enternecedor...
The land appears to me to be clearcut, and trying to regrow.
The living things here- with this music everyday - feels like sacred encouragement to grow and grow.
Amazing performance. The precision and clarity matches the whimsical movements of the environment perfectly. This is as good as cello gets.
Beautifully delivered with powerful basses and magical tones seem to blend with nature !!!
Two things I love - my home and Yo-Yo Ma's playing. I would have loved to met him when he was here, better to have been sitting there while he played!
Every time when I hear you play, the interpretation is more beautiful and profound ❤
Beautiful!
I have always loved your playing. I still do!
What an awesome place, performance and person!
And the animals came out from the wild to sit and listen in peace and harmony.
Odważne,urocze, potrzebne.Swietne połączenie -----mysl przewodnią naszych czasów.☘️☘️🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
No existe en la música ninguna combinación de ornamento que el músico genio no sea capaz de reproducir.
Busca la forma más enérgica del color de la música el contenido es maravilloso para el mundo!!!
Gracias maestro. ❤❤❤
@Yoyomamusic007 The pleasure is mine, I hope you are well and have a nice afternoon
@Yoyomamusic007 Sorry but I don't understand where I have to put these numbers and why
@Yoyomamusic007by TH-cam? or what platform
Una maravilla!!!
Absolutely stunning! Your episode on The West Wing is still one of my absolute favorites and my parents are big fans. I'm gonna send this to them right away!
Esos árboles muertos...este Preludio, como un rezo... esta interpretación desde el alma... siento la mano sanadora del arte para salvar a este planeta...Gracias Maestro Yo-Yo Ma...
Stunningly beautiful and painful at the same time... Thank you for this great moment
Thank you for being amazing Monica would Llke to taIk more better the first
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Brilliant. Is it only me or are there other people who count their blessings that they are not deaf and they listen to this?
Exquisite! Thank you for sharing your brilliance and talent. Love your interpretation of this moving piece.
연주가 정갈하고 아름다워요.
최고의 첼리스트😍😍
Beautiful..Thank you so much 🫂💖
Absolutely beautiful
Obrigado pela sua música que traz um sentimento nobre de empatia e fraternidade.
Just wonderful.
Wonderful performing !!!
A beautiful piece enhanced by the breathing nature around it. The music almost feels cold
Such a gorgeous instrument the base (larger than the cello) and played by a master. ❤
Best all natural blood pressure med out there. Your Berkshires miss you, man.
Geez that's so beautiful & sad. Tears in my eyes 30 seconds in...then I read Princess Daazhraii Johnson's words and there went the water works lol
That's simply very beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
thank you yo-mama for this formidable performance !!
Amaizing performance thanks máster Yo Yoc Ma!
Mr. ma your playing,as well as the chelo is briliyant🐞❤🔥🌹
"There is still hope when we experience life"
Las cosas más hermosas de la vida, la música ❤
The genius of Yo-Yo Ma is ageless.
Thank you for the important message on the earth through your playing in Alaska
Pure beauty! Thank you!
Thank you for this beauty. Very touching 🎧🤍
Beatufiul as always Ma. HOpe to see you perform live someday.
Deep, spiritual, love this 🙏🏻
Thank you, and thank you for your performance at the memorial for the World Central Kitchen workers.
Amazingly beautiful. 🙏🏻
how nice
that was beautiful