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L. & N. BOULANGER / SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / VIARDOT-GARCIA
Merci Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Kathryn Stott (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Merci is a deeply personal expression of gratitude, a celebration of the powerful relationships that keep music alive. This effervescent recording is rooted in the compositions of Gabriel Fauré, whom Kathryn Stott calls her "musical soulmate," and... |
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JOHN WILLIAMS
Yo-Yo Ma - A Gathering of Friends Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / New York Philharmonic Orchestra, John Williams [ Sony Music / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] The 40-year friendship between two musical titans, John Williams & Yo-Yo Ma, reaches a new peak with 'A Gathering of Friends.' The incredible warmth & brilliance of composer/conductor John Williams is felt throughout this album. |
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YO-YO MA / STUART DUNCAN / EDGAR MEYER / CHRIS THILE
Not Our First Goat Rodeo Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Stuart Duncan (violin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Chris Thile (mandolin) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] The music featured in this stunning album is so complex to pull off that the group likens it to a goat rodeo - an aviation term for a situation in which 100 things need to go right to avoid disaster |
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BACH / MEYER / SAINT-SAENS / MORRICONE / VIVALDI / TAN DUN / etc
The Essential Yo-Yo Ma (Gold Series) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with various guests & accompaniments [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] "Discs with snippets like this have to be taken for what they are: appetizers for further exploration or just agreeable easy listening. What is never in doubt is the high quality of the playing and recording." (MusicWeb) |
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ENNIO MORRICONE
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Music / CD - released 24/Jan/2005 ] The genesis for this recording began during the Academy Awards in 2001, when Yo-Yo Ma was performing the Academy Award-winning score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on the Oscar telecast, and met Morricone, who was also in attendance for his... |
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Rainy Ma
The Essential Early Recordings [ Primo / 2 CD - released 27/May/2016 ] These almost ghostly, otherworldly missives from another age still have the power to entrance after all this time, and are at the heart of all our modern music - the beginnings of Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, Jazz, and R 'n' B are all here. Ma Rainey was... |
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SELAOCOE / BACH / PLATTI
Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae) Abel Selaocoe (cello) with Yo-Yo Ma, Colin Alexander, Simran Singh, Max Baillie, Rakhvinder Singh, Ruth Gibson & others [ Warner Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - CHAMBER BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - NEWCOMER |
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Berliner Vokalensemble Carl Ma
Kalinka [ MDG / CD ] |
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RODNEY LISTER
Lister: Of Mere Being - Choral Works The Choir of the Church of the Advent, Boston ChengCheng Ma (piano), Mark Dwyer [ Metier / CD - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Rodney Lister's choral compositions represent a remarkable synthesis of literary sensitivity, harmonic sophistication, and an abiding commitment to vocal expressivity. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Symphony No 7 Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / West-Eastern Divan Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/May/2020 ] "This is a fine, generously-filled and well-recorded album of Beethoven's music, in traditional performances that are very good." MusicWeb May 2020 |
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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. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / LP - released 29/Aug/2025 ] This recording of Brahms' Double Concerto with Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was originally released in 1997, captured from a live recording at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 1996. |
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LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Choral Fantasia (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] "They perform with the most tender expression in the slow movement, and there are fireworks from all three in the last movement" James Longstaffe "That Perlman and Barenboim have made distinguished-nay, superlative!-recordings of the Beethoven... |
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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... |
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CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide Judith van Wanroij; Stéphanie d'Oustrac; Cyrille Dubois; Tassis Christoyannis; Jean-Sébastien Bou; David Witczak; Anne-Sophie Petit; Jehanne Amzal; Ma [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Since the Baroque revival of the late 1980s, Iphigénie en Aulide is Gluck's only French opera to have remained unrecorded on period instruments. |
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Les Pommes De Ma Douche
Swing From Paris [ CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] |
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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) |
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Ma'alot Quintett/Mandelring Qt
Onslow: Nonet/Quintet [ Cpo / CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] |
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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 |
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Rossi/Academia I Filamonici/Ma
Vivaldi:dresden Concerti Vol.4 [ Naxos / CD ] |