Music June 2006
Concert note
On Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall.
The last decade or so has seen the American cellist Yo-Yo Ma turning in a widening gyre away from core classical repertoire and toward the less familiar airspace of World Music, a catchall that makes neighbors of rappers from Marseille and oud players from Lebanon. Mas musical flights have taken him from Asia to Appalachia to Brazil and beyond, but for all his exploratory forays, J. S. Bachs Cello Suites have remained a staple of Mas touring program. The Suites are Bachs only work for unaccompanied cello, a masterpiece companion to his sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Ma has recorded the Suites twice, once in 1983 and again in 1998 (the later recording included a DVD project of six accompanying films).
Certainly Mas commitment to and knowledge of the Suites was never in question at Carnegie Hall, where two triangles of additional onstage seating behind the...
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