Yo-Yo Ma : Song of the Birds

Encore at the BBC Prom 2015, as a tribute to the Great Pablo Casals!

[@valeriesmith5780]

It's not often I come across a performance of Maestro Casals' music; thank you for posting.

[@davehshs651]

What a beautiful, sweet performance of this piece, without any of the harsh sounds often played.

[@hugaly4017]

It’s such an honor to be taught by the man who arranged this piece, Mr.Emmanuel Kwok. He’s such an inspiration. I hope I become a cellist as good as him some day.

[@linhop5746]

My favorite performance of the song. Ma has such a sweet, sensitive execution without accompaniment.

[@suedavis3525]

absolutely agree

[@loperet100]

The best version. Oved to listen to this traditiojal Catalan song by this great artist.

[@mariasusana.dalleva]

Sublime interpretación... Conmueve las fibras más intimas de nuestro ser .. Gracias .. Muchas gracias por esta belleza!!!!

[@haydeemariacompte9484]

Gran Tributo a Pau Casals!!!! Gracias por bajarlo!!! Es el alimento del alma por excelencia!!!!

[@diegoangaritajr.7942]

I like that Cello 😍 I love Cellos

[@user-tu8yo2ib3n]

So beautiful 요요마 ㅡ 카잘스연주 들었는데 .. 감동~😂

[@YAYAisme]

They played this song during the #ElPasoStrong memorial and during @FCBarcelona moments of silence....always chokes me up

[@7domenica]

Magnifique interprétation. Pas si facile de jouer cette subtile composition après Pau Casal. J'ai eu de la chance de voir sa maison à Molitg-les-bains près de Prades où chaque année en juillet on organise une série de concert à son honneur...... . Magnificent interpretation. Not so easy to play this subtle composition after Pau Casal. I was lucky to see his house in Molitg-les-Bains near Prades where every year in July we organize a series of concerts to his honor ......

[@arturoxavierpachecovaladez5772]

Es una maravilla. Así como Picasso hacía un toro con siete líneas, Casals hace un monumento musical con pocas notas. La interpretación es excelente.

[@lmestres-manzille9229]

Magnifique interprétation......merveilleux souvenir de ma jeunesse ou j'ai eu l'immense bonheur de l'écouter joué par PAU CASALS

[@evelijn48]

You touch the skies like the birds

[@suedavis3525]

How on earth can anyone dislike this wonderful performance

[@siuhhonkeung]

At least the proportion is 1.4K likes vs 35 dislikes. On the other youtube performance where he played Bach/Gounod, the proportion is 704 dislikes vs 31 likes. I usually disregard this kind of ridiculousness, but sometimes I can't.

[@xevi.despertaferro5452]

I tell you why. It's super disrespectful TRANSLATING the name of, not only the song, the artist name as well. Pau, not Pablo.

[@skull7598]

@@xevi.despertaferro5452 okay but it’s still a great performance also stop being so sensitive no one cares

[@suedavis3525]

@@xevi.despertaferro5452 Don't be ridiculous; firstly it isn't disrespectful, secondly it is highly unlikely that that is the reason for the "dislikes", thirdly it is the performance that matters, and as usual it is brilliant.

[@TheSatisfiedPig]

​@@xevi.despertaferro5452 that's a really stupid reason to dislike the video.

[@rodeo2108]

I'm surprised he didn't stop at 2 min 10 with the seat banger followed by the coughers .. Muppets

[@tonsyoremiko5009]

カザルスは「鳥はピース、ピースと鳴くのです」と言ってました。 戦争という愚かでバカげたことがこの世界からなくなることを祈ります。

[@gmost9434]

My favorite Christmas Carol. Ma plays a beautiful rendition❤ Joan Baez sings the gorgeous vocal version.

[@paulortega554]

There is something genuine in a work of art,when your moved to tears amazing beauty in between the lines,sound,performance,and expression.

[@jkgou1]

Thank you very much for great performance

[@cassianmiller-felix2657]

My school’s orchestra is playing this. I play cello.

[@diegoangaritajr.7942]

me too

[@miriamsaavedra6039]

It is magic to my ears and it is so beautiful

[@siontee]

thank you for the beauty

[@waltergray7722]

So beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[@Rosangela161]

Preciosa performance. Gracias

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

preciosa version

[@josebonillaalmonte8057]

Una gran evocación interpretativa de Yo Yo Ma a este excerpt creativo de Pablo Casals...que alude a un "Canto de las Aves"...!!! A su vez nos recuerda a un músico francés que escribió música para este reino animal...Olivier Messiaen...!!!

[@thisaudientlife5425]

Great tribute to the great Pablo.

[@monsoonsummer]

Very beautiful.

[@petedelrio5990]

beautiful

[@carlomastrodonato3070]

Musica che invita a un religioso raccoglimento.

[@murielolindatrigosogives5385]

Estas mis preferidas🎶🎶🎶

[@nicholasborelli275]

OUTSTANDING!

[@barbaraweselakfranch1387]

Very beautiful. 🌹

[@rosavgonzalez8278]

Maravilloso!!!

[@magdalenaportmann2431]

Beautiful. Pity about someone dropping something noisily towards the end - and all the coughing.

[@myafandelatelierderoxaneet1965]

Merci

[@isabelriera9748]

Fantastic Yo Yo Ma!! Grea

[@francogomez1628]

Beautiful

[@jasonma6177]

Too good for me to play

[@fendetestaspk]

Grande Pablo, grande...

[@myafandelatelierderoxaneet1965]

TROP FORT

[@robeeer2]

The title is wrong tho, the name of the song is actually "The singing of the birds"

[@isabelescudero4119]

Brabooooo

[@itxasoquelart8885]

❤

[@yoavd.3350]

Mi comentario es el 1 de Enero del 2021. Soy practicante del violonchelo, la oración y el altruismo. La impotencia aveces gana. Y cuando me golpea toco esta pieza desde mi alma. Que Dios deje que los pajaros sean libres y nos traigan luz del cielo, para darle esa luz al que no la tiene. No soy religioso, por que el templo es el cuerpo, la fe el padre, el amor el hijo y el altruismo el espíritu santo. Practiquemos esto para encontrar la luz. Dios esta en nosotros, pero muchos no lo buscan o el sufrimiento no se los permite.

[@AlbuPhotographyBucharest]

A great song played by a mega cellist in a room full of rude and disrespectful persons constantly making noises!

[@svendbosanvovski4241]

You know, you are right. Its the night of the Proms and many in the audience just show up to later say they went.

[@hammylauw9574]

The illiterate inside the library

[@waltuh2.3bviews3secondsago3]

It’s a shame there’s all that coughing. It’s probably the main reason I prefer casals’ peformance

[@LemonDrizzleGang]

Surely not a song

[@vilmaribodrucchiarle6423]

🎁amei

[@WholesomeDemonKastis_a_shlump]

The only Arthur character that also appeared in JoJo's!

[@parismanrique4589]

That was in my staar test lol

[@vilmaribodrucchiarle6423]

🎁

[@frankie3253]

If you can play it slowly you can play it quickly!

[@gemmasands4321]

Peter Casal.

[@bababooey1244]

Pau Casals is not the author of that work, do not get confused, he was a great cellist, he fought against Francoism and fascism that is not small, but the melody of anonymous author dates back to the Middle Ages, what Pau did was a transcription for the cello.

[@enricsanmartigrego4320]

A Catalan folk song indeed.

[@alsr2651]

Pau Casals*

[@useraboutme]

Does anyone have the notes?? I will be veeery greatfull, if you send me on it on my meil

[@nathanhughes2498]

Len Moskal I do

[@joelcodina4636]

its a catalan folk song christmas carol, its called "el cant dels ocells", im sure you will find the sheets online easily

[@rodeo2108]

Sorry 2min 08

[@udruganikolateslaastralnig3891]

If Casals was Pau and Catalan ( on Catalan Pau means Peace ) why do you call him Pablo? The fact is he died before Franco but....?

[@isabelriera9748]

udruga Nikola Tesla Astralni Genij Hi, for the catalan people, he's Pau. This is a boy's name ( in spanish Pablo) but in catalan language Pau means peace. I

[@rao803]

Because Spain has never respected Catalan identity, and it will never do it. So they need to translate to Spanish everything, even the names (and if they could, the surnames too)

[@manimartinez1232]

he didn't die before Franco, he had to leave Catalonia cause he supported the govern before the dictatorship and he refused to play in every country that admit Franco's militar power as the legal rulers in all Catalonia and Spain. So he was a voice for both things, catalan identity and peace between nations. So his fight was against Fascism, that's part of the beauty of this piece.

[@santicarvalhido-gilbert8437]

@@manimartinez1232 He died in 1973, shortly before Franco...who died in 1975

[@santicarvalhido-gilbert8437]

@@rao803 Not just Catalan identity....Castilian is the power language in Spain, so Galician (Portuguese co-dialect), Basque and Catalan languages suffer a similar fate

[@StuartKirk-io2re]

Somuchbackgroundnoise

[@nightflyfly]

hmm.. irony.. I think so.

[@lsthero5863]

Pau Casals! Not Pablo Casals. He made appology of the independence of catalonia all his life

[@lafayette951]

Enjoy the music, you sad clown!

[@LASANIMASBENDITAS]

La música no entiende de esas payasadas. ¡Disfrute de ella y déjese de pendencias primitivas, se hará un favor a usted mismo!

[@lsthero5863]

@@LASANIMASBENDITAS hacia el final de su vida ese señor se nego a volver a tocar “el cant dels ocells” hasta que su tierra, cataluña, fuera libre de la dictadura fascista que reinaba en españa. El mismo vinculo su música con la politica

[@LASANIMASBENDITAS]

@@lsthero5863 Todos los españoles nos alegramos de vernos libres del dictador. Pero si lo que pretende usted argumentar es la cosa esa de la independencia tan de moda desde hace unos años, le significo que yo es que de nacionalismos no quiero entender en absoluto. Siendo sincero hasta lo veo cómico. No conozco ningún nacionalismo inocuo. Todos son contra alguien. No me interesa el tema lo más mínimo. Saludos.

[@lsthero5863]

@@LASANIMASBENDITAS tu escucha su discurso en la ONU y dime que no esta hablando de independencia

[@carloshumphrey1]

Not to impressed, although is Yoyo Ma. He falls short from Casals. Please tell me if I'm wrong. But this is a very deep and sentimental piece, The song of the Birds "El cant des Ocells". If you may try: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX3GnXisaLeMiLM. This song is a Catalan folk Christmas song, That Pau Casals made it popular by adapting it to a Cello piece as he went around the world. "En veure despuntar / el major lluminar / en la nit més ditxosa / els ocellets cantant / a festejarlo van / amb sa veu melindrosa Cantava el pasarell / "Oh qué hermos i qué bell / és l'infant de Maria!" / I alegre diu el tord / "Vençuda n'és la mort / ja neix la Vida mia." I l'aliga imperial / pels aires va volant / cantant amb melodia / I dient "Jesús és nat / per treure'ns del pecat / i darnos alegria."

[@tonsyoremiko5009]

カザルスはナチスの前でチェロを弾かなかった。 ナチスが演奏依頼した時腕の調子が悪いと言って追い返した。 なぜYoYoMaはダボス会議で弾いたのでしょうか。

[@user-bb8gt2tu2t]

「平和」というのは、単に戦争がない状態を言うのではなく、暴力・迫害・抑圧・弾圧・差別・欠乏・搾取・深刻な貧困等の人権侵害がない状態を言うのです。現代では、ミャンマーでのロヒンギャ迫害を考えると解ります。なお、欠乏や深刻な貧困は、基本的人権の一つである生存権の侵害です。

[@yamadori33]

この方はうまいんだろうが、どの演奏も心に残らない音楽とはきれい過ぎてもだめなんだろうな。

[@MozartWoIfgangAmadeus]

Very good music, but how dare you write Pablo Casals! His real name is PAU CASALS. Names are not translated.

[@vilmaribodrucchiarle6423]

🎁