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Super Hits : Yo-Yo Ma

2011-01-12T13:44:00.000-08:00

This CD is very enjoyable with a variety of different style songs (classical & contemporary).

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Performer: Yo-Yo Ma
Audio CD (November 19, 2007)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: SonyBMG Special Markets
ASIN: B000YMOA6E
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars

Bach,

2011-01-10T11:12:00.000-08:00

Bach, J.S.: Cantata for Alto, Cantata for Bass, German Cantatas before Bach [Box Set, Import]

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Philippe Herreweghe is widely considered to be one of the foremost Bach interpreters of our time. This four deluxe CD-Book collection is part of the Philippe herreweghe Bach Edition, and features key works from the Bach canon. Each set in the series is available at a very special low price and features packaging and liner-notes on a par with the best that harmonia mundi offers. These sets are a rare bargain and a must-have for collectors.

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Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe

Composer: J.S. Bach

Audio CD (November 9, 2010)

SPARS Code: DDD

Number of Discs: 3

Format: Box set, Import

Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.

Label: Harmonia Mundi

ASIN: B003TI39L2

Meyer & Bottesini Concertos

2011-01-10T10:58:00.000-08:00

Meyer & Bottesini Concertos with Yo Yo Ma and Joshua Bell

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Performer: Yo Yo Ma, Joshua Bell

Orchestra: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

Conductor: Hugh Wolff

Composer: Edgar Meyer, Giovanni Bottesini

Audio CD (June 11, 2002)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Sony

ASIN: B0000667R3

In-Print Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars

On this record, featuring Edgar Meyer as both composer and bassist, the playing's the thing, and it is spectacular. His performance of four virtuoso concertos, two by himself and two by Bottesini, eclipses his compositions, though his stylistic versatility is in full evidence in both his works. The Concerto for Bass has elements of jazz and blues, and a good deal of textural contrast and imaginative orchestration, but it is repetitive and a bit dreary. In the hair-raisingly difficult Bottesini Concerto, Meyer performs every imaginable and many unimaginable technical feats, covering a range of more than six octaves and producing sounds from growls to flutelike harmonics. Apparently craving even more pyrotechnics, he substitutes his own cadenzas for the composer's.Two equally stunning virtuosos join him for the other works. In his Double Concerto for Cello and Bass, he and Yo-Yo Ma chase each other up the fingerboard to the highest register, where, with their lines answering and interweaving, it is sometimes impossible to tell them apart. The piece is tonal and modal and supposedly classical in form, but quite dissonant. The middle movement alternates motoric outbursts with eerie, unvibrated sustained passages; the finale combines folk-fiddling with blues. Joshua Bell and Meyer play Bottesini's Duo Concertante for Violin and Bass with incredible virtuosity and obvious relish. Bell's tone is ravishingly beautiful and his charm, flair, and style are irresistible. Like his older compatriot Paganini, Bottesini was enthralled by Italian opera. The piece is full of dramatic recitatives and meltingly songful cantilenas, with the soloists bursting into arias and love duets and the orchestra setting the stage and providing the atmosphere. --Edith Eisler

Mozart for Mothers-to-be: Tender Lullabies for Mother and Child

2011-01-09T12:07:00.000-08:00

Fill the womb--I mean, the room--with the gentle sounds of Mozart's lovely Adagios and Adantes performed by strings and winds.

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Performer: Quartetto Italiano, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Grumiaux Trio, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble
Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Neville Marriner, Alexander Gibson
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Audio CD (April 9, 1996)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Philips
ASIN: B0000041EV
Also Available in: Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
Average Customer Review: 5 star

The Essential Yo-Yo Ma

2011-01-07T13:56:00.000-08:00

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Here are three dozen pieces of music, all played by Yo-Yo Ma, culled from his extensive discography.

Aside from the technical mastery and beautiful tone that are absolutes in all of his playing, one is dazzled by his curiosity and ability to adapt to so many forms and types of music. His Bach and Vivaldi are pellucid and played with non-sentimental crispness, his tango music gritty and rhythmically pungent, his jazz seemingly spontaneous, the "Meditation" from Thais simply ravishing, "Anything Goes" a romp, and the Appalachian music performed with both respect and a great twang, while the traditional Chinese music is fascinating. It's really a matter of how much Ma loves whatever he plays here, how entirely he becomes involved in it, and what a fine partner he invariably is to other musicians. This collection is a doozy--it is truly "essential."

Songs of Joy & Peace

2011-01-07T13:47:00.000-08:00

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Imagine a party, a musical party inspired by the holiday season. A party that celebrates the universal hopes, dreams and joy animating seasonal festivals the world over - Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid al-Adha, Kwanzaa, Yule and New Year's Day.
That is what brought Yo-Yo Ma together with a remarkable group of friends - some old, some new - to create SONGS OF JOY & PEACE. It is Yo-Yo's hope that everyone who listens to this album will hear a song familiar, comfortable and beloved to them as well as discover and fall in love with music that is brand new.
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Performer: Yo-Yo Ma

Audio CD (October 14, 2008)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Sony

ASIN: B001BN1V8U

In-Print Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars

Yo-Yo Ma : Songs of Joy & Peace

2011-01-07T13:28:00.001-08:00

For his latest album, Songs of Joy & Peace, the multiple Grammy®-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma invited many of his favorite artists from the worlds of popular and classical music to collaborate on a selection of songs

Some sacred, some secular, some traditionally seasonal, some simply beloved -- connected in their sense of wonder and appreciation of the holiday season. Yo-Yo Ma conceived of Songs of Joy & Peaceas a universal holiday house party of music "uniting different forms of joy" with the idea of combining familiar material with songs that would offer the listener the gift of discovery performed by old friends and new. Songs of Joy & Peace celebrates the universal hopes, dreams and good cheer animating seasonal festivals -- Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, Kwanzaa, Yuletide, Winter Solstice, New Year's, Ramadan -- the world over.

Celebrating his 30th anniversary with Sony Classical and Sony Masterworks, Yo-Yo Ma is an exclusive Sony Classical artist, and his discography of over 75 albums (including 15 Grammy® Award winners) reflects his wide-ranging interests. He has made several successful recordings that defy categorization, among them Hush with Bobby McFerrin, Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey with Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer and two Grammy®-winning tributes to the music of Brazil, Obrigado Braziland Obrigado Brazil - Live in Concert. Yo-Yo Ma's most recent recordings include Paris: La Belle Époque, with pianist Kathryn Stott, Appassionato, which contains some of the world’s most romantic music andNew Impossibilities, a live album recorded with the Silk Road Ensemble and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; he also appears on John Williams's soundtrack for Rob Marshall's film Memoirs of a Geisha. Across this full range of releases, Yo-Yo Ma remains one of the best-selling recording artists in the classical field. All of his recent albums have quickly entered the Billboard chart of classical best sellers, remaining in the Top 15 for extended periods, often with as many as four titles simultaneously on the list.

The Double Bass - Robert Oppelt & Friends

2011-01-06T15:04:00.000-08:00

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This CD features a new recording of Gunther Schuller s remarkable Quartet for Double Basses (performed by the world-class NSO bassists) and the premier recording of Charlie Barnett s popular Serenade for Double Bass. Dragonetti s unaccompanied Waltzes invite a more personal encounter with the rich sound of the bass. * * * Robert Oppelt joined the National Symphony Orchestra bass section in 1982 at the invitation of Music Director Mstislav Rostropovich. He was promoted to Assistant Principal Bass in 1984 and in 1996, under Music Director Leonard Slatkin, was appointed Principal Bass. Mr. Oppelt has appeared as soloist with the NSO in performances of Mozart s Per Queste Bella Mano, Paganini s Moses Fantasy, and Koussevitsky s Concerto for Double Bass. Chamber music collaborations include performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Hillary Hahn, and Joseph Kalichstein.

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Performer: Robert Oppelt (double bass)

Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra soloists

Conductor: Robert Oppelt

Composer: Barnett; Debussy; Dragonetti; Oppelt; Rossini; Schuller

Audio CD (December 12, 2006)

Number of Discs: 1

Label: MSR Classics

ASIN: B000M06NNG

Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars