Songs from Movies

Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of Carceri (1997)

THE SOUND OF THE CARCERI explores the deep relationship between music and architecture through a high-tech 'virtual confrontation' between Bach and his contemporary, the architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Using a striking visual style, director Francois Girard ('The Red Violin' and 'Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould') places Yo-Yo Ma within a series of computer-generated, three-dimensional recreations of Piranesi's well-known prison etchings. Through Yo-Yo Ma's and music producer Steven Epstein's struggle to recreate and interact with the imaginary space that Ma performs in, the film examines the complexity of illusion, of representation and reality.

The movie Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of Carceri, released in 1997, features 1 song from Yo-Yo Ma.

 

Songs from Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of Carceri

Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008
Yo-Yo Ma