407K views · 20K reactions |  Accompany Yo-Yo Ma in his musical pilgrimage around the world, playing Bach’s cello suites that are so dear to him and to us. Here he plays the first Suite in G Major in the stunning decor Athens’s Odeon of Herodes Atticus!  https://bit.ly/475voTQ | medici.tv | Facebook

I’ve spent decades trying to get this piece right. At some point, I found a way in: in the same way that a river begins far before we meet it, I imagine this music starting long before I play the first note; I just have to join it. Like the river, the music is always flowing, and like the river, it’s always changing. All I have to do is picture a river, feel its energy, get into its flow, and follow it. ___ Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 (Live from the Smoky Mountains) Video by Austin Man