Yo-Yo Ma - Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites (CD)

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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. Bach 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. 1 under his father’s instruction. Ma has never lost his initial fascination.

“Bach’s Cello Suites have been my constant musical companions,” Ma writes of the music. “For almost six decades, they have given me sustenance, comfort and joy during times of stress, celebration and loss. 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. 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.

The August release of Six Evolutions also signals the beginning of a two-year, six-continent journey in which Yo-Yo Ma will devote himself to Bach’s music, playing all six Cello Suites in a single setting in familiar and unlikely locations.

Six Evolutions – Bach: Cello Suites will not only offer an essential encapsulation of what this music means now to one of the world’s most celebrated artists, it begins a new chapter in the cellist’s 58-year relationship with this music.

Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites

Tracklist:

1. Disc 1 Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major BWV 1007
2. I. Prélude
3. II. Allemande
4. III. Courante
5. IV. Sarabande
6. V. Menuets I ; II
7. VI. Gigue
8. I. Prélude - Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV 1008
9. II. Allemande
10. III. Courante
11. IV. Sarabande
12. V. Menuets I ; II
13. VI. Gigue
14. I. Prélude - Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009
15. II. Allemande
16. III. Courante
17. IV. Sarabande
18. V. Bourrées I ; II
19. VI. Gigue
20. Disc 2 Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major BWV 1010
21. I. Prélude
22. II. Allemande
23. III. Courante
24. IV. Sarabande
25. V. Bourrées I ; II
26. VI. Gigue
27. I. Prélude - Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV 1011
28. II. Allemande
29. III. Courante
30. IV. Sarabande
31. V. Gavottes I ; II
32. VI. Gigue
33. Prélude - Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major BWV 1012
34. II. Allemande
35. III. Courante
36. IV. Sarabande
37. V. Gavottes I ; II
38. VI. Gigue