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 ...
For his Double Violin Concerto (1997) Mark O'Connor temporarily set aside his popular "Appalachian" mode (adequately represented in the last three pieces here), and turned his attention to the blues and jazz -- or at least the aspects of these genres he had absorbed and accepted as fair game for "classicizing." Considering the Texas swing and ...
The very early history of the folk music revival in America is peopled to some extent by classical musicians such as Ruth Crawford Seeger (Pete's stepmom) and Suzanne Bloch who acted as midwives, expert collectors of past folk material, sources of repertoire, and even as performers when there was no folk movement as such. Once the folk revival got ...
Martin Luther praised Josquin Desprez as a composer who told the notes what to do rather than being bossed around by the notes. In every generation, there are too few like that; Tan Dun is one of these. Water Passion After St. Matthew is an astonishing achievement on many levels. The work is set in English and scored for soprano (Elizabeth Keusch) ...
What makes Yo-Yo Ma a great cellist? His controlled lyricism, his focused tone, and his restrained passion. What makes Ma a great musician? His extraordinary breadth of taste. While other artists dream of crossover hits, Ma has them -- and plenty of them. As demonstrated on this disc called Appassionato -- it might have been called "Greatest Hits" ...
Nashville-based fiddler Mark O'Connor first gained an international reputation in the classical sphere partly because of the sheer audacity of his country-classical fusions: they worked simply because getting the fiddle and the symphony orchestra in the same room, with something to say to each other, was an accomplishment in itself. O'Connor built ...
Opinions vary over Wynton Marsalis' contributions to the field of jazz, but there is little controversy over his exceptional classical performances, which are well documented on this satisfying twofer from Sony. Covering a period from 1984 to 2003, this survey provides representative samples from Marsalis' best-selling classical and crossover ...
As a violinist and fiddler, Mark O'Connor has worked in a wide variety of styles and idioms, and his own compositions reflect the same eclecticism, which encompasses folk, rock, country, bluegrass, contemporary classical, and jazz. The bulk of his work has been instrumental, but here he turns his attention to choral music, and this disc includes ...
This collection features selections from eight of bass player Edgar Meyer's most popular albums made for Sony. It includes mostly Meyer's own compositions written for himself and friends, as well as his arrangements of folk pieces and transcriptions of classical works, and is an excellent introduction to the diversity of his interests and the ...
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