Yo-yo Ma, undoubtedly the reference in Cello playing for the past years together with the older genius Rostropovich delightfully interprets a deep and heartfelt version of Sain Saëns “The Swan” from the Carnival of the Animals in a Tokyo performance.

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Ma is regarded by some as the most famous cellist of the modern age.

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Watch Yo-Yo Ma playing The Swan, from Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals