|
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 |
|
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) |
|
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... |
|
Niko Ne Zna
Niko Ne Zna [ Monkey Records / CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] This is the self-titled, debut EP from Wellington's balkan, gypsy brass extravaganza - featuring delicious arrangements of five traditional and original Gypsy tunes |
|
Niko Ne Zna
Renegade Brass Band [ Monkey Records / CD - released 22/Feb/2013 ] New Zealand's very own Balkan Gypsy brass extravaganza, this 8 piece band has evolved into a true Gypsy juggernaut... |
|
Yo La Tengo
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (LP) [ Matador Records / 2 LP - released 22/Aug/2011 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. |
|
Yo La Tengo
Electr-O-pura (25th Anniversary Edition LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 4/Sep/2020 ] 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo's 1995 album Electr-o-pura. Now in a gatefold sleeve and cut from the original 58-minute master, the new reissue is pressed for the first time on two LPs to ensure the highest quality of audio the album has had... |
|
Yo La Tengo
Fade [ Matador / CD - released 18/Jan/2013 ] |
|
Yo La Tengo
I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass [ Matador Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2006 ] The famously restless band continues to broaden it's horizons - and has made it's best album to date! 'I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass' is a whipping ripper. |
|
Yo La Tengo
Sleepless Night EP (12") [ Matador / 12in - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Sleepless Night is a six-song EP with one new tune ("Bleeding") plus covers of songs by The Byrds, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Lane, and The Flying Machine. The tracks on Sleepless Night were initially released as one side of an LP... |
|
Yo La Tengo
This Stupid World [ Matador / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. In their latest effort, the first full-length in five years, This Stupid World was created all by... |
|
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 |
|
Autre Ne Veut
Anxiety - LP [ Software / LP - released 25/Feb/2013 ] Anxiety is the full-length follow up to Autre Ne Veut's 2010 s/t debut. The influences range from David Byrne to Lee "Scratch" Perry, Laurie Anderson and Annie Lennox to Katy Perry and Rihanna. ANV's primary influence is karaoke- the solitary person... |
|
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 |
|
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. |
|
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... |
|
Ne-Yo
Year of the Gentleman [ Def Jam Recordings / CD - released 16/Sep/2008 ] Grammy award winning, multi-platinum singer / songwriter, Ne-Yo releases his third album - his ode to the style, respect and grace of the Rat Pack. |
|
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 |
|
J. S. BACH
Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites (3LP) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 20/Sep/2023 ] 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... |