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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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" ...
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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