The Essential Yo-Yo Ma (2005) more music like this

performed by Alison Krauss (vocals), Antonio Agri (violin), Bobby McFerrin (vocals), César Camargo Mariano (piano), Claude Bolling (piano), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Daniel Humair (drums), Edgar Meyer (bass), Emanuel Ax (piano), Gaby Casadesus (piano)
composed by Antonin Dvorák, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Antonio Vivaldi, Astor Piazzolla, Camille Saint-Saëns, César Camargo Mariano, Chinese Traditional, Claude Bolling, Cole Porter, David Wilde, Dmitry Shostakovich, Edgar Meyer, Ennio Morricone, Fillippo Azzaiolo

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 ...

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Appassionato (2007) more music like this

performed by Edgar Meyer (piano), Emanuel Ax (piano), Gaby Casadesus (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Jeffrey Kahane (piano), Joel Fan (piano), John Williams (piano), Kathryn Stott (piano), Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi), Mark O'Connor (violin), Octavio Brunetti (piano)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Astor Piazzolla, Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Chinese Traditional, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Edgar Meyer, Ennio Morricone, Felix Mendelssohn, George Gershwin, Jacob do Bandolim, Johannes Brahms, John Williams, Michio Mamiya

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 ...

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Barber & Meyer: Violin Concertos (2000) more music like this

performed by Hilary Hahn (violin), Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff (conductor)
composed by Edgar Meyer, Samuel Barber

This is the premiere recording of a successful new American violin concerto. This recording of the concerto by composer and double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer was made in Ordway Hall, Saint Paul, Minnesota on September 27, 1999, shortly after its world premiere.The same artists made the recording: The young American virtuoso Hillary Hahn (for whom ...

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The Essential Hilary Hahn (2007) more music like this

performed by Hilary Hahn (violin)
composed by Dmitry Shostakovich, Edgar Meyer, Felix Mendelssohn, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Leonard Bernstein, Ludwig van Beethoven, Samuel Barber

Listening to this disc, The Essential Hilary Hahn, one can easily understand what everybody hears in the young American's playing, to wit, the ebullience of her Preludio from Bach's Third Partita, the passion of her Andante from Barber's Violin Concerto, the intensity of her Chaconne from Bach's Second D minor Partita, the expressivity of her ...

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Meyer & Bottesini: Concertos (2002) more music like this

performed by Edgar Meyer (double bass), Joshua Bell (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff (conductor)
composed by Edgar Meyer, Giovanni Bottesini

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The Best of Edgar Meyer (2007) more music like this

performed by Bela Fleck (banjo), Bela Fleck (guitar), Edgar Meyer (various), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Joshua Bell (violin), Mark O'Connor (violin), Mike Marshall (mandolin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff (conductor)
composed by Béla Fleck / Edgar Meyer, Edgar Meyer, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pablo de Sarasate, Traditional

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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The Essential Joshua Bell (2007) more music like this

performed by Bela Fleck (banjo), Edgar Meyer (bass), Frederic Chiu (piano), John Williams (piano), Joshua Bell (violin), Mike Marshall (guitar), Mike Marshall (violin), Mike Marshall (mandola), Sam Bush (mandolin), Sam Bush (violin), Simon Mulligan (piano)
composed by Edgar Meyer, Edgar Meyer / Sam Bush / Mike Marshall, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Gabriel Fauré, George Gershwin, Giacomo Puccini, Jascha Heifetz, John Corigliano, Jules Massenet, Karl Goldmark, Leonard Bernstein, Ludwig van Beethoven, Nigel Hess

Existing fans of violinist Joshua Bell are already well-acquainted with the broad scope of repertoire and performance abilities ranging deftly from the classical concerto repertoire to his well-known collaborations with Edgar Meyer. For those unfamiliar with Bell's recorded works, this two-disc set of The Essential Joshua Bell provides quite a ...

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Meyer: Quintet; Rorem: String Quartet No. 4 more music like this

performed by Edgar Meyer (double bass), Emerson String Quartet
composed by Edgar Meyer, Ned Rorem

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Edgar Meyer: Quintet; Ned Rorem: String Quartet No. 4 (1998) more music like this

performed by David Finckel (cello), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker (violin), Lawrence Dutton (viola), Philip Setzer (violin)
composed by Edgar Meyer, Ned Rorem

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Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace [Deluxe Edition] [CD+DVD] (2008) more music like this

performed by Alison Krauss (vocals), Alon Yavnai (piano), Amelia Zirin-Brown (vocals), Andrea Zonn (vocals), Angelina Assad (vocals), Arnold McCuller (vocals), Badi Assad (vocals), Balla Kouyate (balafon), Balla Kouyate (vocals), Billy Childs (piano)
composed by Anonymous, Blossom Dearie, Christmas Traditional, Cristobal Halffter, Dave Brubeck, Edgar Meyer / Chris Thile, George Frederick Handel, George Harrison, Guy Wood, Jerome Kern, John Lennon / Yoko Ono, Marcos Leite, Natalie MacMaster, Osvaldo Golijov

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Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace (2008) more music like this

performed by Alison Krauss (vocals), Alon Yavnai (piano), Amelia Zirin-Brown (vocals), Andrea Zonn (vocals), Angelina Assad (vocals), Arnold McCuller (vocals), Badi Assad (vocals), Balla Kouyate (balafon), Balla Kouyate (vocals), Billy Childs (piano)
composed by Anonymous, Blossom Dearie, Christmas Traditional, Cristobal Halffter, Dave Brubeck, Edgar Meyer / Chris Thile, George Frederick Handel, George Harrison, Guy Wood, Jerome Kern, John Lennon / Yoko Ono, Marcos Leite, Natalie MacMaster, Osvaldo Golijov

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Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology (2001) more music like this

performed by Alison Krauss (vocals), Bela Fleck (banjo), Bela Fleck (mandolin), Bela Fleck (guitar), Edgar Meyer (mandocello), Edgar Meyer (bass), Edgar Meyer (piano), James Taylor (vocals), John Jarvis (piano), John Mock (penny whistle), John Mock (low whistle)
composed by American Traditional, Edgar Meyer, Edgar Meyer / Sam Bush / Mike Marshall, English Traditional, Mark O'Connor, Stephen Collins Foster, Traditional Spiritual

In 1995, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor joined forces on Appalachia Waltz, the first of a series of Sony Classical albums celebrating the varied musical textures of Americana. Over the course of six years, several albums were cut, among them Short Trip Home, Liberty!, Uncommon Ritual, and Midnight on the Water, in addition to the Grammy ...

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