Johann Sebastian Bach: Six suites for solo cello, BMV 1007\u20131012
\nPlayed by Yo-Yo Ma. The Frauenkirche, Dresden, 31 January 2018.<\/p>\n
Auferstanden aus Ruinen<\/strong><\/p>\n Once, the Frauenkirche was reduced to rubble. His instrument is an orchestra that lives inside his cello. Music arises from the cello The couple in the front bench try to focus on the music. The cellist strokes the strings with his bow and tilts his head back. What is a pair of glasses against an incendiary bomb carpet? The music follows its own timeline. From K\u00f6then, Bach can see The front bench couple have missed both the fire and the miracle, Dresden, 31 January 2018<\/em><\/p>\n Translated from the Swedish<\/a> by the author<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nYet Yo-Yo Ma now plays Bach in the new old church.<\/p>\n
\nHe has even found room for a baroque organ
\nand a medium-size boys\u2019 choir.<\/p>\n
\nAnd fills the room with dense sound matter.
\nThe church aligns itself further
\nand flakes of misery fall off its walls.<\/p>\n
\nThey are unsuccessful. He sensually caresses the Stradivarius of her back.
\nThe music can wait. The instrument, though, carries a promise.<\/p>\n
\nA strip of lights bombards his glasses
\nwith photons which reflect
\nand turn into the beams of anti-aircraft searchlights.<\/p>\n
\nThe saraband bears witness to the city as a lunar landscape.
\nThe dead Christ hangs on the cross, no church for him.
\nIt is accomplished.<\/p>\n
\nthe sea of flames illuminating the horizon where Dresden lay.
\nToo sad. It wouldn\u2019t be wrong to write down a few cello suites.
\nSix pieces should be enough to put a rather large church in order.<\/p>\n
\nbut applaud more eagerly than most.
\nAn important message to the public: All clear.<\/p>\n