Yo-Yo Ma is “exuberance incarnate, arguably the finest, certainly the most dynamic cellist on the international circuit.” And yet he still spends half of every concert tucked in the back of the orchestra playing as one of the section cellists. “It would make him the world’s most expensive rank-and-file orchestral cellist but for the fact that, as he says, ‘I come free after the interval. You know, there’s nothing like the thrill of sitting at the back of the cellos, close to the basses, wind and brass.’” – The Telegraph (UK)