Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax: A Celebration - recordings for cello & piano

 
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Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax: A Celebration - recordings for cello & piano
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / with Emanuel Ax (piano) / with Pamela Frank (violin), Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) Jaime Laredo (viola)

[ Sony Classical / 21 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Friday 24 May 2019

A 21 CD box-set released on the 'Sony Classical' label - In celebration of the internationally acclaimed pianist Emanuel Ax's 70th birthday and his long-term musical partnership with revered cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Sony Classical is pleased to release. This must-have box set sees their complete recordings for Cello and Piano ,originally released on Columbia Masterworks/Sony Classical, released in a single edition for the first time. This stunning box set features exquisite performances of works by revered composers Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov. Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma's friendship began when they were both studying at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York. The duo have gone on to produce numerous critically acclaimed recordings together. Included in this exquisite box set are the duo's Grammy award winning recordings of Beethoven: Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C & Variations; Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor and F and Brahms: Sonatas for Cello & Piano (Op. 38, 99 and 108).

Tracks:

Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5

Beethoven: Variations (7) on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", for Cello and Piano, WoO 46

Beethoven: Variations (12) on "See the conquering hero comes" for Cello and Piano, WoO 45

Beethoven: Variations (12) on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" for Cello and Piano, Op. 66

Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 38
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 38
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70
Schumann: Stücke im Volkston (5), Op. 102

Strauss, R: Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 6

Britten: Sonata for cello and piano in C major, Op. 65

Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119

Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19

Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 11 'Gassenhauer', for violin, cello & piano

Mozart: Clarinet Trio in E flat major, K498 "Kegelstatt-Trio"

Chopin: Piano Trio in G minor Op. 8
Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C, Op. 3

Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C, Op. 3

Dvorak: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65 (B130)
Dvorak: Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 (B166) 'Dumky'

Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40

Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K493
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K478

Beethoven: Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, Op.16 (arranged for piano quartet by the composer)

Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26

Dvorak: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat, Op. 87

Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78

Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45

Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout'
Schubert: Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821

Lieberson, P: King Gesar

Corigliano, J: Phantasmagoria on 'The Ghosts of Versailles'

Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 1 in E major 'Sweet Remembrance'
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 6 in A flat major 'Duetto'
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 2 in C minor
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 1 in G major 'May Breezes'
Mendelssohn: Song without Words for Cello & Piano, Op. 109