Everything you need to know about this year’s concert highlight
| | | Tonight, Monday 4 November, we’ve reserved you the best seat in the house, as Yo-Yo Ma makes his Australian debut performing all six of Bach’s Cello Suites.
From 6.45pm, ABC Classic’s Russell Torrance will bring you all of the action from the long sold-out Sydney Opera House. You can watch the broadcast exclusively on the ABC Classic website, and listen via ABC Classic on your radio, on the ABC listen app and via your digital TV (channel 27).
For rights reasons, the concert broadcast is only available tonight. So gather your friends and tune in for this one-night-only experience, as one of the most inspirational musicians of modern times joins us in Australia. | | | | | | |
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| About the concert
Yo-Yo Ma has set out to perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s six suites for solo cello in one sitting, in 36 locations around the world.
It’s a journey motivated not only by his six-decade relationship with the music, but also by Bach’s ability to speak to our common humanity at a time when our civic conversation is so often focussed on division.
The project has brought music to iconic locations around the world, including the National Cathedral in Washington DC, the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Each concert is accompanied by a Day of Action, a series of conversations to explore how culture can help us build a better future.
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| Where to watch and listen
Watch on the ABC Classic website here.
Listen on ABC Classic via FM, DAB+, ABC Classic website, ABC listen app, and on your Digital TV channel 27.
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| Timezone information
The radio broadcast, via FM, DAB+, will be time delayed – so tune in from 6.45pm wherever you are in the country. You can also access time-delayed streams of ABC Classic via our website here.
The video stream is not time delayed. It begins at 6.45pm AEDT (NSW, Vic, Tas) – which is 6.15pm ACDT (SA), 5.45pm AEST (Qld), 5.15pm ACST (NT), 3.45pm AWST (WA).
If you’re outside NSW, Vic and Tas, you’ll be able to watch the stream live at 6.45pm AEDT, and then watch the whole stream until midnight across Australia.
For rights reasons, the video stream will only be available within Australia.
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| Warm up for the broadcast
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| | | | | | | | | The cellist and humanitarian lives the questions we all ask about life and our humanity. Ma’s restless curiosity has opened doors lightyears beyond the standard cello repertoire. He’s commissioned a catalogue of new works and wandered off into musical ventures like his visit to the Kalahari bushmen and appearance on Sesame Street. | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | With his sense of social responsibility and creation of projects that transcend their musical origins, cellist Yo-Yo Ma has achieved iconic status not just as a performer, but as an artist in the broadest sense of the term, using his art to help improve the lives of those who may not have even heard classical music before. | | | | | | |
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| | | | | The prelude is the Holy Grail, a goal for every cellist to learn as soon as possible. So much so that cello teachers often need to hold their students in check so they don’t learn it too soon and become discouraged. This prelude is the first piece you will hear Yo-Yo Ma play in Australia; he has been playing it for over sixty years. | | | | |
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