Sun Valley Music Festival @ Home – San Francisco (on-demand until 3/18/2021)
Free
Amos Yang, cello
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012
Sun Valley Music Festival's third Festival @ Home event this winter explores the grandeur, complexity, and lively harmonies within one of classical music’s most iconic and profound works, Bach’s Sixth Cello Suite – performed by Sun Valley favorite, Principal Cello Amos Yang. Although Bach’s suites are now considered by many to be the most significant works in the solo cello repertoire, they languished in quiet obscurity for over 150 years. In 1890, cello virtuoso Pablo Casals discovered tattered copies of the suites at a second-hand shop in Barcelona. His appreciation for them grew as he studied them, leading to his seminal audio recordings in 1936, which paved the way for their current fame.
This is an all-new performance – available online only on Sun Valley Music Festival’s website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page – recorded for the Festival last summer at the beautiful Kohl Mansion near San Francisco, CA.
The broadcast will take place at 6:30pm Mountain / 5:30pm Pacific. Available to watch for free for 48 hours.
Watch the broadcast here:
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