Hynninen/Finnish No Orch/Ma
Rautavaara: Vincent - Opera In [ Ondine / 2 CD - released 7/Dec/2009 ] |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
The very best of Rachmaninov: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Idil Biret (piano) Bernd Glemser (piano) Michael Grebanier (cello) Vladimir Grishko (tenor) Janet Guggenheim (piano) Marina Mescheriakova (cello) & ma [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
WILLIAMS / MORRICONE / BONFA / PREVIN / BERNSTEIN / LEGRAND / etc
John Williams Conductor Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell (violins) Yo Yo Ma (cello) / Pittsburg Symphjony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, John Williams [ Sony Classics / 20 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2018 ] In 1980, composer John Williams became one of the most visible conductors on the planet after being named Music Director of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Since then he has lead hundreds of high-profile concerts with the Pops and with many other leading... |
FAURE
The Complete Songs Vol. 2 Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Felicity Lott and Stella Doufexis, sopranos / John Mark Ainsley and John-Paul Fouchecourt, tenors / Christopher Ma [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] "This disc has given me enormous pleasure and will continue to do so, I know. I recommend it urgently" (MusicWeb April 2005) |
GERALD FINZI
Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra Op. 31 / Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op.40 John Denman (clarinet) New Philharmonia Orchestra / Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jul/2007 ] "These recordings - sounding handsome still - derive from two Lyrita Recorded Edition LPs issued 1976-79. The Clarinet Concerto comes from SRCS 92 where it was alongside the two piano-and-orchestra works already used as fillers for SRCD... |
Les Pommes De Ma Douche
Swing From Paris [ CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] |
DVORAK
Slavonic Dances / Quartet op. 96 / Bagatelles op. 47 Ma'alot Quintett [ MDG / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] "Exceptionally felicitous ... highly skilled arrangements ... world-class playing from all five members of this stunning group" RECORDING OF THE MONTH (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
Ma'alot Quintett/Mandelring Qt
Onslow: Nonet/Quintet [ Cpo / CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] |
BEETHOVEN
The Concertos & Overtures [5 CD set recorded 1966-1988] Maurizio Pollini (piano) Christian Ferras (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Anne-Sofie Mutter (violin) / Vienna Philhamronic, Berlin Philharmonic [ Deutsche Grammophon / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Recorded over a period of twenty years this is a mightly document featuring some of the world's most famous artists performing the music one of the world's greatest composers. |
JOHN FIELD
Piano Concerto No 7 in C / Divertissement No 1 / Rondeau / etc MAceAIl O'Rourke (piano) / London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] The Chandos John Field collection continues. |
JOHN FIELD
Field: Piano Concertos (complete) Maceal O'Rourke (piano) / London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert (with David Juriz, violin, & Julia Desbruslais, cello) [ Chandos Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "O'Rourke seems to have adopted the style of Field himself; he has a lovely touch and flow." (American Record Guide) |
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with special guests
Obrigado Brazil (remastered) [ Sony Music / CD - released 3/Jun/2003 ] Cellist Yo-Yo Ma returns to the sounds and rhythms of latin America. |
LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Choral Fantasia Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / CD - released 6/Feb/2017 ] "They perform with the most tender expression in the slow movement, and there are fireworks from all three in the last movement" James Longstaffe |
Rossi/Academia I Filamonici/Ma
Vivaldi:dresden Concerti Vol.4 [ Naxos / CD ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Concertos Maurizio Pollini (piano) Mark Zeltser (piano), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Gidon Kremer (violin), various conductors [ Deutsche Gramophon Collector's Edition / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2013 ] Brought together on 5 CDs, the complete Beethoven concertos in performances by great artists and orchestras. In addition to the well-known works - with Daniel Barenboim, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Herbert von Karajan, Yo-Yo Ma, Maurizio Pollini, and others... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Emanuel Ax plays Chopin Emanuel Ax (piano) with Pamela Frank (violin), Yo - Yo Ma (cello) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Sony & BMG Music / 6 CD Box Set - released 3/Dec/2017 ] Polish by birth and a victor of the Chopin Competition, Six CDs present Emanuel Ax's interpretations of a stimulating range of concertante, solo and chamber works by his compatriot. The two concertos are played with Sir Charles Mackerras conducting... |
Yo Yo Ma
Soul Of The Tango (Translucent Red LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 4/Sep/2015 ] Inspired by a great passion for Astor Piazzolla's tango, The Soul Of The Tango is a critically acclaimed and essential work of the "Nuevo Tango", played by Yo-Yo Ma's world famous cello and many of Piazzolla's former friends and... |
J. S. BACH
Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites (3LP) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 5/Sep/2018 ] Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Yo-Yo Ma's new album Six Evolutions - Bach Cello Suites, his third and final recording of these works. Bach and his Cellos Suites entered Yo-Yo Ma's life when he was four, when he learned the first... |
BACH / BOCCHERINI
Simply Baroque Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Oct/2016 ] "Listening to the two Boccherini works on this marvellous CD reminds you again of Ma's uncanny technical facility, at once elegant and unselfconsciously virtuosic. Ton Koopman provides the cadenzas and the performances are pure delight." (Gramophone) |
DVORAK
The Dvorak Album Yo-Yo Ma [ Sony Classical / CD - released 7/Sep/2004 ] |