Unlike the recent Classic Yo-Yo, really a single-disc sampler of the recorded work of our true superstar cellist, The Essential Yo-Yo Ma purports to be something more -- the Yo-Yo Ma album to own if you're going to own just one. Where Classic Yo-Yo more or less alternated track by track between Ma's straight classical and crossover music, The ...
This disc repackages tracks of a romantic mood from a variety of Yo-Yo Ma discs released over the course of his strong-selling album career. A few of them (track 2, for example) come from recordings of straight-ahead classical repertory, and there are several new tracks, but most are taken from the cellist's fabulously successful series of ...
Having died at the age of 39, Chopin certainly wrote too little music in his lifetime -- especially for instruments other than the piano. Is the solution to that problem to transcribe and arrange his piano music for other instruments? As always, the answer depends on the quality of the arrangement and the conviction of the performer. In this 2007 ...
Impressive as the alignment of such stars as Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax might be, these 1990 recordings of Fauré's Piano Quartets present something less than a harmonic convergence. A classical supergroup, the four musicians bring enormous talent and strong personalities to their performances, but also serious problems of ...
Idiomatic doesn't even begin to describe the music-making on this disc coupling Dvorák's String Quintet in G major, Op. 77, and his Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81. Not only are the four members of the Czech Skampa Quartet -- violinists Pavel Fischer and Jana Lukásova, violist Radim Sedmidubský, and cellist Lukás Polák -- incredibly tight, ...
MGV (Musique ŕ Grand Vitesse) was written to commission for the opening of the TVG high-speed train line at Lille, which runs to Paris, but it doesn't play out like a typical "commission." MGV is grand, relentlessly rhythmic, and exciting music that rushes onward for a full half hour with only a couple of relatively quiet passages to allow for the ...
The big news here isn't that Kathryn Stott has turned in another impressive recording of Kabalevsky's piano concertos. The virtuosic English pianist had already done that with her previous recording of his second and third concertos in 2005. The big news here is that Neeme Järvi, once the most recorded conductor in the world, has turned in his ...
One doesn't need to delve very deeply into music history to notice how many composers have had children who followed their father's careers, with J.S. Bach and his several musically successful sons being the most obvious example. Generally, the younger composer either has foundered under the weight of his/her father's reputation (Siegfried Wagner, ...
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