Since you are interested in Yo-Yo Ma Plays Cello Masterworks (8CD box set), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre (with Villa-Lobos - Guitar Concerto) John Williams (guitar) / English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim & Charles Groves [ Sony Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "A warm, outgoing account, captured in a recording that focuses sharply on both guitaristic and orchestral details without seeming overly clinical" (New York Times) |
W.A. MOZART
Symphonies Nos. 35, 39 & 40 Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell [ Sony Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "Pride of place goes to the reading of the Haffner Symphony, especially in the last movement where Szell presides over a true "presto" and absolutely breathtaking string playing." (ClassicsToday) |
CARL ORFF
Carmina Burana Evelyn Mandac, Stanley Kolk, Sherrill Milnes / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "I would urge the mid-price RCA version by Ozawa every time...polished and incisive with Sherrill Milnes as a magnificent baritone soloist." (Gramophone) |
BEETHOVEN
Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "All told, a highly successful performance, typical of the conductor in its expressive power and dynamism, but completely free of his less admirable mannerisms." (MusicWeb on Symphony No 5) |
MAX BRUCH
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor (with Mozart - Violin Concertos 4 & 5) Jascha Heifetz (violin) / Chamber Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "The G minor Concerto finds Heifetz at his sweetest and most sympathetic, with even the incidental passagework shaped winningly." (Gramophone on the Bruch) |
SCHUMANN
Fantasie in C major Op 17 / Fantasiestucke Op 12 [recorded 1976] Martha Argerich (piano) [ Sony Originals / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "this is classic Argerich: incandescent and mercurial, she seems to have a limitless range of colour at her disposal. The Fantasie possesses tenderness; the Fantasiestucke soar." (BBC Music Five Stars) |