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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)
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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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)
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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Alain Marion (flute), E. Power Biggs (organ), Gabin Lauridon (double bass), Gaby Casadesus (piano), Gerard Causse (viola), Michel Arrignon (clarinet), Michel Cals (glockenspiel), Michel Cerutti (xylophone), Philippe Entremont (piano)
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Abraham Skernick (viola), Alexander Heller (bassoon), Christopher Millard (bassoon), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (soprano), David Singer (clarinet), Dominique Visse (counter tenor), E. Scott Brubaker (horn), Eli Eban (basset horn), Franklin Cohen (basset horn)
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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)
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" ...
Until the '40s, Béla Bartók -- with his angular melodies, his brash colors, his harsh harmonies, and especially his aggressive rhythms -- was regarded as a modernist boogieman. But after his exile to America, Bartók's modernism mellowed, and his final works are among the most immediately attractive in twentieth century music. This is especially ...
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Alain Marion (flute), E. Power Biggs (organ), Gabin Lauridon (double bass), Gaby Casadesus (piano), Gerard Causse (viola), Michel Arrignon (clarinet), Michel Cals (glockenspiel), Michel Cerutti (xylophone), Philippe Entremont (piano)
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