Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired By Bach Vol.1 - Sony Music Entertainment

"The Music Garden"

with Julie Moir Messervy
Garden Designer
Featuring Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello J.S. Bach
Directed by Kevin McMahon
Produced by Niv Fichman

"What if we created a garden inspired by Bach?" In their quest for a answer, Yo-Yo Ma and garden designer Julie Moir Messervy journey from Boston to Toronto, across bureaucratic miles of frustation and through seasons of changing hope. Their remarkable tale is movingly documented by filmmaker Kevin McMahon.


"The Sound Of The Carceri"

Featuring Suite No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello J.S. Bach
Directed by Francois Girard
Produced by Niv Fichman
1998 Emmy Award Winner - Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series

Imagine Giovanni Battista Piranesi's dazzling "carceri" (prison) etchings - the unrealized dream of this 18th-century Italian master architect - brought to life in a computer-rendered 3-D "virtual" collaboration. In this cutting-edge film by Francois Girard (dirctor of "The Red Violin"), Yo-Yo Ma explores Bach's mysterious Second Suite, creating with his music a sound to match the invented spaces of our imagination.