Saturday 25 February 2012
Tune of the Day: Sarabande by J.S. Bach
from Cello Suite No. 5, transcribed for solo flute
The Sarabande from Bach's fifth Cello Suite is the second of only four movements in all six suites that doesn't contain any chords. The famous Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich described it as the essence of Bach's genius.
Yo-Yo Ma played this movement on September 11, 2002 at the site of the World Trade Center, while the first of the names of the dead were read in remembrance on the first anniversary of the attack.