Well done. This is how my music was always intended to be played

I wonder if Bach ever thought that this would still be being played after 300 years

Thank you for being the first result for "That one cello song."

It really hit me hard when he said, “la tidotedolatidotedolatidoodedoolatidotedoo”. Truly inspiring words.

This is living proof that cellos are underrated and overlooked. I’m a violin player and I always love it when a song draws attention to the cellos. So beautiful.

the fact that I can look up "that one cello song" and find exactly what I'm looking for just shows how amazing this piece is

No wonder Bach has more music on the Golden Record, on Voyager in space, than any other musician. This piece really speaks to me. Just lovely.

Still feels like magic in 2024 Anyone?

The meaning of life is somewhere in this masterpiece

Quite literally one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written

One of the greatest cellists of all time performing one of the greatest cello pieces of all time. Simply beautiful.

When I was born the first thing my father did was play me this piece. It's beautiful.

i once got to sit in a small room with Yo Yo Ma while he warmed up for the concert to come. Just me. And him. In a small room. In a Bangkok auditorium. Stunning!

This makes me wanna learn cello Edit: thank you for everyone's support and advices! Sadly, I don't have the money and time to learn it.. But I'll keep listening to cello pieces! This is edited a year after I commented this and my how time flies..

This is the type of song that makes you want to slap some teenager's head against the floor with that magnificent move

Masterpiece, absolutely beautiful. The goosebumps and feelings are unfathomable. Pure experience of body bliss, feels like every atom of every cell in my body is alive and bursting with energy. A state where everything feels perfect, right and beautiful. Euphoria hits every time, times like this are truly worth living for. Makes me love having aspergers as I expect neurotypicals dont feel this music the same...

I wonder how did instruments like the cello even get invented and how the hell do they compose these masterpieces?

You know... we humans really are something special. It’s easy to get caught up in all the negativity- but it’s nice to be able to step back and appreciate all the really cool and beautiful things we’re able to do and create.

This guy is such a legend he can teleport while playing the cello

Hello, I’m a cellist that just started playing 3 years ago because of Yo-yo-Ma I just performed at Rady Shell. Cello Music really brings my spirit out of my body and is truly one the greatest things a human can feel. 🎶

Literally searched “that one cello song” and found it. Great song and wonderful playing!

No matter your race, religion, skin color, beliefs, gender, nationality, we will always have one thing in common, music brings us all together and forever will.

Transcendent art. Will be played for hundreds of years.

Beautiful performance ❤ Music, this wonderful universal link for connecting people !

Not only does he play beautifully, but he does it with a smile on his face.

I feel like cooking an omlette and eating alone looking at a wall Edit: Thank you for the likes #bringdaredevilback

The cello is in tune with the human heart, especially when Yo-Yo Ma is playing.

It begins as a gentle whisper and keeps growing on you, finally ending with a huge mountain of emotion. It just doesn't get any better than this.

As a cellist myself, the sound of his hands hitting the fingerboard is so damn satisfying ❤️❤️

Anyone else notice that the scene changes every time he plays open g?

When we've all felt an emotion together, we have accomplished something extraordinary.

I watched him live last night in the Disney Concert Hall and he is without question, the best Cello player in the world. Incredible.

Just a reminder that Bach prayed every day that he might write the music of heaven.

my grandfather used to play this to warm up. his cello had strings that were very special, and the sound was amazing. each day he would play it. its warm tones would reverberate through the house. i miss him so much. thank you yo-yo ma, for giving me a little bit of my grandfather back edit: spelling

LAAA DUDUDUDU LAAA DUDUDU LAAA

La do do do do do la 🕊🎵🎵 do do do do do🎼🎶

Probably the most beautiful piece of music ever written. The beginning is so calming and before you know it you’re on a roller coaster of emotions propelled by one lone cellist. The end always hits me the hardest- mirroring the intro, but elevated with wisdom and emotion. It’s amazing how this song has a life of its own and says so much without a single word

"the tragedy is not to die , but to be wasted"- a man with good taste in music and gastronomy

This Bach piece, played by Yo-Yo Ma, on his cello perfumes my soul and reaches every corner and finds every emotion hiding there. I am completely laid bare, no place to hide, it is existential pain and the most exquisite pleasure the senses can summon. I will remember you forever, Yo-Yo Ma, for the voice you speak from your cello, and the way it dances rainbows in soul. Thank you for your mastery of this incredible instrument, and for bringing Bach to life again. 🙏❤

Music, with Yo-Yo Ma, brings the whole world together! Gracias to all these many musical heroes!

This music is such a SLAP Definitely the best OF his works I think that even GOD would enjoy this performance

What a lovely way to start a Monday morning. Thank you. X❤️🙏

Ladies and gents, the musical piece that will outlive the solar system.

I never tire of this. I still get goose bumps and tears well up. This music reminds us all of what humans are capable of creating.

So beautiful. Who's watching to remind themselves how beautiful life is during this coronavirus breakout.

The most beautiful piece of music 🎶 ever written for the cello IMO ❤

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My wife played this for me... when I was on a ventilator and I rebounded

"When I was a boy..." - Wilson Fisk

This is specifically one of my most favorite songs. It’s way too calming for what it is.

Law, doo de doo de doo de doo law doo de doo de doo de doo

This masterpiece makes you wanna learn Cello ❤️

Who in the everloving world would downvote this? Yo-Yo Ma is a legend and this song is so beautiful.

I've been playing the cello since I was 7 years old. My grandma insisted that I practice this instrument, and whenever I mastered this piece, she would always ask me to play it for her while she sat and sipped her tea. back then, I resented it, but now that she's gone, I miss her dearly, and I wish I could play that piece for her many times more. Love you Eden wherever you are.

Yoyoma!!! The right people will get it.

my teacher played this at the begunning of the day today, it was very nice and calming. most of my classmates were saying something along the lines of how lame it was we were listening to classical music and questioning just how old my teacher was. you really don't need to be old and wrinkly to understand and recognize beauty like this

I am continually impressed by Yo Yo Ma's unique and creative ways of fusing old and new; classical and modern; high culture and so called low culture; and his ability to reach into our guts and touch that which connects us all as creatures of the world through music. Thank you for your diligence and for sharing your gift!

Beautiful performance. This gave me goosebumps ...

La do do do do do do la du du du do du

I’m a grunge music kinda guy, but this music takes me to the most peaceful place I’ve ever been. This music captures you with its beauty and will not let you lose focus from it.

“The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.” J. S. Bach

It’s so beautiful, it’s like god’s slapping me in the head from above.

This is simply perfection and my favourite piece of music ever, always moves me.❤

What a beautiful song to kill somebody with a majestic slap when you’re bored

I loved Yo-Yo Ma's performance, but the video is a piece of art itself because of the combination of images of everyday scenes all around the world, it also means for me that in some way each has it own part on this orchestra called life. Personally as Latinoamerican I feel identified with the boys riding the bike. Greetings from Cuernavaca México.

this music SLAPS its so good bro, OF all the songs ive heard this is just GOD-ly.

Everyone, who has ever lived, and died, is on this little blue dot. What wonders we have accomplished, what loves we have lived, and lives we have loved. I hope that there is some of this reality left, when I wake up again.

This music *SLAPS* majestically.

This makes me wanna look for a flightless bird in the Galapagos Isles

Bach is the greatest musical mind this planet has ever experienced. 😊

Path to the math

If you really look at it, there's something incredibly beautiful about this piece of music in conjunction with the visuals of the white lines. The piece, beginning with a sort of disjointed dance between G and D, feels very composed and methodical. Moving toward a goal, an endgame, it feels ready and willing to meet any challenge. But then it begins to sway, to move, to shift and shake. It feels as if the piece has lost its way, in a meandering, piecemeal way; it isn't bad, just off on its own way. But then, finally, the piece climbs and climbs, bit by tiny bit, until we reach a sudden peak and we find ourselves back around at the start of it all. Take all of that, and add to it the video and the lines. The lines, when near someone doing something (Ma playing the cello, the girl on ice, the kids in the alley, the ballerina, etc...), shake and move rapidly. But when they get away from someone, they effects of the people are muted, so that the lines flow smoothly on. And don't take that as me saying that there is effect; on the contrary, everyone always moves the lines the tiniest bit for us all, as process goes. When you frame it in that regard, then all of a sudden each person contributes in their own way and to their own effect. As if to say, "Look, we're all connected by this force, this energy, this effect, and we all have an immediate impact; but if you want to shake the lines around others, it's really going to take some effort, something spectacular." And when you combine this meandering journey of beauty and mystery that finally circles back to its powerful and authoritative starting point with the notion that we are all connected and all exist on the same flowing force, but we only have small effects, think about it: Yo-Yo Ma is trying to paint a picture of what he says at the beginning: Just some thoughts. Brilliant piece of music, Mr. Ma absolutely nails it. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all, it's been a long year and I hope whoever reads this finds joy for themselves.

2:17 One of the great highlights of classical music.

I love your music and I am 9 years old you inspire me to be a better musician

I have been a lover of music my whole life and have a rather eclectic taste. My cousin was born deaf and recently at 24 yrs old got cochlear implants so he can now hear. Knowing I sing and have played he asked me to introduce him to music. Taking a historical approach I started with classical and this was the first song he's ever heard having been completely deaf. We didn't film as it was a private experience but this song moved him to tears.

Remember when yoyo ma was on that episode of Arthur, and DW called him “yo- ma ma” ? 😂

From 2:10 to 2:33 ALWAYS hits me so hard that I tear up. Ever since I heard this song played on saxophone in the 2001 asian movie "Stereo Future", I have been madly in love with this piece. It slowly builds, and a feeling of euphoria washes over me every time. Best heard on Cello, so thank you Yo-Yo!

What an enthralling video to go with such a masterpiece! Bach would be proud. ❤🎉

I love your playing technique, Yo-Yo Ma, you truly are one of the greats!

overwhelmingly happy to be included in the video as a citizen of the globe!

Nearly 300k views in a week! Great to see there's still so much love for Bach.

Sometimes when done, I briefly think that I want to go back to hear a specific part and then realize that it's best to hear the whole thing every time. It's not any one part, but the whole journey to it's quite perfect end.

I see this beauty and I shed tears for all the humans who don't get to see this beauty. And I weep.

My father bought me my first album of you ten years ago. That was the first time I was touched by Cellos. Thank you, sir.

2:10-2:33 probably one of the most recognizable sounds of music

Depression is beating me down right now but seeing a video of different humans with their different hobbies and passions helps to not feel so alone

as close to perfection as humanly possible.

Yo-yo Ma inspires me to be better. The energy when he plays is so welcoming and warm. He seems like a wonderful person.

The piece that plays as an unfamiliar power wells up in the palm of hand, about to be delivered.

wonderful interpretation of this Cello masterpiece... Johann would be proud.

Que bonita música!!! Remanso de Paz y Belleza!!!! Gracias gracias gracias ❤

This slap like a god

I looked up "that one cello song" and this popped up. Thanks KZfaq!

O LOVE J,SBACH MY FAVORITE COMPOSER AND OF COURSE THE VERY FAMOUS YO YO MA

Honestly Yo-Yo Ma is such a legend of my childhood. This is such a forever favorite.

My teacher once met Yo-Yo Ma. She tells me how gentle and wise he was. Filled with advice and discipline. Follow your heart my friends, you never know where it might take you.

This has to be by far the best music video I have ever seen. Yo-Yo Ma, You are a legend.

La dududududu la dududududu

I suffer from debilitating migraines. I am on the train trying to take attention away from my nausea and just listened to this. Before the end of this my migraine has stopped. I think i found my therapy

This song has been my inspiration for playing cello. My cousin let me play her cello and she showed me this melody when I was just 8 years old. I wanted to play thw song so bad that so my family and I bought a cello. It has kept me going but when I finally learned it I realised that I didnt have anything to work towards anymore. So you know what I did? I stopped playing the song for a few months just so I could learn how to play it again! I still relearn it today all the time and I just want to that my cousin and Yo Yo Ma because I never would have seen its beauty if I never watched this video. Thank you so much for bringing me to this beautiful instrument! I'll keep learning new songs along the way!