YO-YO MA: INSPIRED BY BACH, VOL. 1: THE MUSIC GARDEN/THE SOUND OF THE CARCERI

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Music, Special Interest
• Plot: The Music Garden; ; with Julie Moir Messervy Garden Designer ; ; Featuring Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello J. S. Bach. Directed by Kevin McMahon. Produced by Niv Fichman.; ; 'What if we created a garden inspired by Bach?' In their quest for the answer, Yo-Yo Ma and garden designer Julie Moir Messervy journey from Boston to Toronto, across bureaucratic miles of frustration and through seasons of changing hope. Their remarkable tale is movingly documented by filmmaker Kevin McMahon. ; ; The Sound of the Carceri; ; Featuring Suite No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello J. S. Bach. ; Directed by Francois Girard. Produced by Niv Fichman. ; 1998 Emmy Award Winner - Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series.; ; Imagine Giovanni Battista Piranesi's dazzling 'carceri' (prison) etchings - the unrealized dreams of this 18th-century Italian master architect - brought to life in a computer-rendered 3-D 'virtual' coliaboration. In this cutting-edge film by Francois Girard (director of The Red Violin), Yo-Yo Ma explores Bach's mysterious Second Suite, creating with his music a sound to match the invented spaces of our imagination. ; ;
• Cast: Yo-Yo Ma, Atom Egoyan, Niv Fichman, François Girard, Kevin McMahon, Patricia Rozema, Barbara Willis Sweete
• Director: Atom Egoyan
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: Sony Classical
• Media Format: Movie