321K views · 22K reactions | I hope to see many of you this Sunday, May 24 at 3p ET for a live performance of Bach's solo suites for cello—a memorial for those we've lost and a tribute to the resilience of our communities. Watch live here: https://youtu.be/AHYD7ZiiD38 Streaming from WGBH in Boston.  | Yo-Yo Ma | Facebook

Happy birthday, Johann Sebastian Bach! Of all the numerous masterpieces Bach composed, few have touched as many hearts as his Six Suites for Solo Cello. Enjoy this performance by CSO Principal Cello John Sharp of selections from the First Cello Suite. | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites contain some of the most fascinating and beautiful movements in all of his oeuvre, and remain one of the most important works in the history of Western music. Jeffrey McFadden’s arrangements for guitar enhances the music, adding a harmonic dimension and making the implied interaction of voices explicit. Here’s an excerpt from the Prelude of Suite No. 4, with its opening of descending quaver patterns. “The playing is simply phenomenal.” (Gramophone) STREAM / BUY: Vol. 1 -