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Yo-Yo Ma - Prelude, Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major

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How Does a Four-Year-Old Start Playing Bach's Suite?

I want to play the first version that you recorded of this in 1983. How does it sound to you now? I'd already been playing them for 24 years. You must have had to play like a quarter-sized cello. I had a 16- sized cello. Yeah, it's really cute. And I was so in Paris, there was no chair that was low enough - my first lesson took place at the violin deluge place and I sat on three telephone books. That's just too cute. It sounds hard, but if you actually think of it at the beginning of the suite goes... These are open strings and you put one finger down, and then again, open

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