Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott - Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) (Official Video) 

My wife took me to see him play with the Buffalo Philharmonic in 2000. I was a long haul truck driver and was like, sure whatever. After two and a half hours and four encores, I couldn't believe how wonderfuI I felt. I've been listening to classical music ever since. Thank you Yo Yo Ma. I bless your mother for giving birth to you.

An American cellist born in Paris to Chinese parents, playing an Irish air composed by an English man, accompanied by an English woman on a German piano. You don't get much more international than that!

We just lost my husband’s father to Covid and this was his favorite song. My niece sang it for him over a video call the night before he passed. It will always hold significance in my heart. This beautiful performance is very healing for me personally and I wanted to thank you for sharing it and helping me through a painful time.

Taking nothing away from Ma, Kathryn Stott is a treasure in her own right. Her performances of tangos are sublime. What a gorgeous collaboration here.

The guy has such unbelievable intonation at high registers. It sounds like he's playing a violin.

When most cellists get to the highest notes they are praying and focusing. He is smiling.

This artist is a treasure and represents all that is transcendent ofthe human species. One of my favorite humans on the planet..

A song of comfort & hope for a world in chaos...mankind's own doing!

He made me first appreciate cellos. Timeless. No fanfare, no drama - just classic excellent cello at center stage.

!!!!! Mr. MA, YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE ESSENTIALS !!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!

Legend

Bravo. I am remembering my irish grandfather who would sing irish lullabyes to me before bedtime. Thank you grandpa.

So proud to have had Kathryn's mother as my piano teacher and the occasional lesson from her when I was little. Inspirational - music is now my life.

This is the master. He played violin range of notes on Cello, nothing to say, just amazing.

I love listening to Yo Yo Ma, he plays so well and it's so calming to hear him play. 🎼❤️😊❤️

Danny Boy is one of the best melodies ever composed. Here it is played beautifully.

Beautiful as always.... you were my teacher through many CDs when i studied cello.. but I started a new job irrelevant to the cello after the graduation from university and i've played cello very rarely during the job and subsequently being a mom of two sons.. these days i started praticing my cello again,, and you were still there with "the gentle smile" as always... thank you very much indeed❤

Watching the two of them enjoy playing music together, as they look at each other and smile, it really made me start to cry man it’s so beautiful and heartwarming. Two people united in their passion. Absolutely wonderful.

When the cello first comes in...I had to double take and make sure that wasn't a human voice singing! Simply sublime

Beautiful music makes our hearts lighter in such a hard time. Thanks to you both!

자연스러움의 극치에 가셨군요... 물이 흐르듯 선율이 흐르니 참 편안한 기분입니다.. 감사합니다 ~😊😊

Thank you for posting this and all your other great performances on RU-vid. I don't have the resources to go to your concerts so it is a wonderful gift for you to share this with the rest of the world.

Yo-Yo Ma is a great man of the people.

You’re on top of that evergreen cliff, sea winds rushing past your skin and hair. Calling out from the depths of your innermost self, hoping your beloved can hear you, too. [Written before the scene of hillsides appear in video.] 🤍🌊 Edit - Music aficionados: Deanna Durbin’s lyrical rendition brings tears. Many greats have done justice, but her voice is intoxicating.

What a touchy music he playing now those day that we been through , pray for tomorrow will be bring us to be safe , we thank you Yo Yo ma 🙏🎻❤️❤️

The vibrato at 1:06 omg literal goosebumps. I love yo-yo ma sm

The way he holds his cello is so...loving.

I'm a trombone player myself, but the cello was always my favorite string instrument and second backup. If I played a string instrument, that would be it.

朝静けさの中歩きながら聴くこのYo-Yo Maさんのチェロの音色は私の心を優しくリセットしてくれます‼️🤗ありがとう😊💕💗

Lovely, sweet performance. So musical and from the heart. What a gift to all of us who are lucky enough to hear it!💖💖

Holy smokes - that precision when he’s playing in gazillionth position , practically falling off the fingerboard. Wow.

Yoyoma vaccine youtube video really touched me. Your music is a treatment that heals our blue moods due to covid. Thank you.

Yo-Yo Maさんの優しいチェロの音楽と優しい笑顔に癒されています♪ありがとう😊💕💗

いつ聞いても　豊かな響きと　表現力ですね

涙が溢れて溢れて感動しました❣️ありがとうMAさん大好きですよ😘❤️！

We all need music in our life. It is how we express ourselves but in a different and more beautiful way. Music heals the soul. I hope that whoever you are and wherever you are that you have a great life filled with joy and kindness.

What a body of work he has, that this is merely another beautiful footnote!

Magnifique! Thank you so much for this magnificent piece! O Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountainside The summer's gone and all the roses falling 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide But come ye back when summer's in the meadow Or all the valley's hushed and white with snow 'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow O Danny boy, O Danny boy, I love you so When winter's come and all the flowers are dying And I am dead, as dead I well may be You'll come and find the place where I am lying And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me But I shall hear though soft you tread above me And all my grave shall warmer, sweeter be And you will bend and tell me that you love me And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me O Danny boy, the stream flows cool and slowly And pipes still call and echo 'cross the glen Your broken mother sighs and feels so lowly For you have not returned to smile again So if you've died and crossed the stream before us We pray that angels met you on the shore And you'll look down, and gently you'll implore us To live so we may see your smiling face once more Once more

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow, Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow, It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow, Oh, Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so!

Saw Yo-Yo perform with the Chicago Symphony and he was soloist in the first half. After the intermission, he was in the regular orchestra with the other musicians and played with them. After it was over, he stayed and chatted with the musicians like friends. A genius on the cello but that told me he was a kind-hearted and gracious gentleman. ❤❤❤

The best musicianship possible. What Yo Yo Ma does is technically almost superhuman and still has so much soul. I mainly listen to him do Bach but he can do it all.

If I could draw a single moment of joy from life commensurate with Yo Yo Ma’s vivid expressions when playing such beautiful music, I would die a happy man 😌 Thank you for sharing your gift with the world!

2 instruments, all this came from 2 simple instruments… absolutely brilliant

Really love this J. Heifetz's "Londonderry Air" cello version! It has deeper, richer voice than the violin one.

Northern Ireland is a wonderful place, the people are kind and very nice. God Bless!

good pianist.

Fantastic singing from Yo Yo on all the registers of the cello, exceptional! And beautiful piano playing by Kathryn, bravo!

感動な曲素晴らしい😢！ マさんありがとうございます♪❤❤！

Yo-Yo Ma is like the Miyagi of the music

My SC mother who met my CT Dad in Europe during WWII, loved this song. My Dad would request it played at every banquet and affair with a band . She would have been so overcome to see her grandson perform with the Mars Hill College orchestra from NC in front of a misty eyed audience in the Dublin Cathederal .

Your touching, beautiful music makes our day far greater. Thanks Yoyoma. Love you💕

Love it. BTW I was drawn to the view out a window wall? Possibly on a cruise that's parked on a waterway near the ocean where soft waves move the boat back and forth?

What I admire most about you, apart from your technique, is the feeling, the love you transmit when interpreting any piece, no matter how simple you make it great. A hug, my admiration and eternal love from Venezuela

HAPPY New Year awesome performers, music makes life worth living, if l might skip anyone plizzzzzz just return to me, until we share such awesome performances every single village on this planet & give humankind such a heavenly bliss big loving oceanic hug & never let any evil dare to harm you guys Ok? We are lucky survivors glory the Lord, time for paaaarty everybody sing along some more 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂😉😉😘😘😘🤩🤩😍😍😍💕💕💕💕🥂🥂🍾🍾🥰🥰💯💯🍷🍷🎺🎺🎺💯💯🥳🥳🥳🤗🤗🥰🥰🥰

A melancholy feast... The saddest of songs played on the saddest of instruments.

Whoever agrees, please, leave your like! #Yo-YoMaNobelPeace2021

如泣如诉，听得我热泪盈眶……马老师谢谢您

*Hey you. Yes you. random person that I will never meet. I truly hope that you will find happiness in life. Today is going to be a great day : )*

감사합니다.

Both the cellist and pianist are fantastic!

I played this piece in my first ever recital as a cellist. It holds a very special place in my heart. Thank you ever so much for this amazing performance!

How beautiful is that ! Thank you, for sharing this. 😊

I love this guy, best celloist

Yo yo mah is kind and thoughtful that's what I see. And other comments show me how he'd touched our souls. He played again and again at covid vaccine centres and will probably continue. The pianist is a perfect combination with him she's lovely 🌺

Beautiful rendition of my favorite Irish dirge❤

This makes myself imagine everything about nature and beuty🎉

Currently learning this song, and this performance makes it seem so much simpler than it actually is. But it is also so calming listening to it.

this is so beautiful 😌✨💚

one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. THANK YOU!

In loving memory of my Irish father, his sister, my beloved Aunt Peg, and also, my little sister recently passed, Dee. I will remember you always and cherish our happy days and loving memories forever.

You pour your heart and soul into this music! And it definitely translates to the listeners ❤️

I love listening to Yo Yo Ma it's so calming to hear him play beautiful music...

"But come ye back..." I couldn't help but sing along.

More proof that God exists. Your God, my God, 'their' God...all of them. They all exist, and the beauty of music is just one of the ways they speak to us.

Oooh! So that's what I'm doing wrong on this song. #cello 😆 So beautiful.

Fantastic! But in Ireland we'd call it a Derry Air. No matter the French connotations.

*When my father taught me to play the cello, he always cited for example Maestro Yo-Yo Ma. This perfomance is Great!*

Después de un largo día nada mejor que escucharlo a ud y cía. Maestro. Infinitas gracias por compartir con todos nosotros y regalarnos un momento de paz y tranquilidad.

I cannot tell why He whom angels worship Should set His love upon the souls of men, Or why as Shepherd He should seek the wanderers, To bring them back, they know not how nor when. But this I know, that He was born of Mary When Bethlehem’s manger was His only home, And that He lived at Nazareth and laboured; And so the Saviour, Saviour of the world, has come

Cello King thank you

To say this is beautiful just isn’t enough

‘He looked beyond my thought and saw my need.’ Amazing adaptation by Dottie Rambo.

How moving! What a beautiful interpretation

The tranquility of your music teared me with calm repose. Thank you so much for sharing your gift.

It's like the Cello can sing and full of passion. What a wonderful performance ❤

He is sublime!!!❣🍃

It's not going to get much better than this!!!

In 2001 we e We’re in Duniegal and at Leo’s Bar ,he was asking for requests and my mother told me to ask for this. Me not knowing that Danny boy was called this ,I went ahead and requested it, Leo Knowing we were all from the North,laughed and sang it with great gusto and massive applause from the audience and two beautiful girls in the party came back with me and my cousin to Danny Minies. It transpired there mother was from Honjures and their father from Hull. With big armond shaped hazel eyes and

Thank you , Mr. Ma and Ms. Stott for beautiful comforting music well played. Bravo/Brava

참 좋습니다(very good)!

音楽の歓びに、心充たされました。ありがとうございます♪♪

What a beautiful piece of music...there is no other words to describe it..excellent drone footage!!

can "hear" the life experience behind the music

Absolutely wonderful🍃

Watching from Australia 🌺

OH MY GOD! Thank you

I love this song! This is just such a top classical song played just so beautifully by a famous cellist! ❤

美しい音楽と映像でした。いつも配信を楽しみにしております。Thank you so much👏💐

Felicidades maestro, muchas gracias por regalar sublime música.🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏🎻❤️

Beautiful music with two great musicians !