Looking at my clock, I am early by forty-five minutes, so please forgive me.
*beams all round*
What Pablo Casals, Yo-Yo Ma, Eric Siblin, Jacques Bono, Allesandra Ferri and Sting have to do with ‘Master and Commander':
J.S. Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites #1, Prelude
By Yo-Yo Ma as we heard it in the movie:
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By Pablo Casals from 1954:
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In Eric Siblin’s book
The Cello Suites he credited Casals with “rediscovering” Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello Suites. Please note that the artist plays it in a monastery located south of the small border town Prades in France (on the other side of the border is Catalonia)
As a Bass Solo by Jacques Bono:
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Danced by Allesandra Ferri, accompanied by Sting
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Enjoy!