Yo-Yo Ma - Essential Yo-Yo Ma (2004)
Artist: Yo-Yo Ma
Title: Essential Yo-Yo Ma
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical, Baroque Soundtrack, Score, Romantic
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:33:06
Total Size: 696 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Essential Yo-Yo Ma
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical, Baroque Soundtrack, Score, Romantic
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:33:06
Total Size: 696 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
DISC 1
01. Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude (2:19)
02. Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297 "Winter": II. Largo (1:47)
03. Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata, BWV 147: Jesus bleibet meine Freude (2:43)
04. Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata, BWV 208: Schafe können sicher weiden (3:38)
05. Johann Sebastian Bach - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 ('Sleepers, Awake') (3:48)
06. Camille Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan (3:08)
07. Camille Saint-Saëns - Havanaise, Op. 83 (8:50)
08. Jules Massenet - Thaïs: Méditation (Arr. for Cello & Piano) (5:48)
09. Fritz Kreisler - 3 Old Viennese Dances: I. Liebesfreud (3:12)
10. George Gershwin - Three Preludes: I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (1:43)
11. Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff - Vocalise (From "14 Romances, Op. 34") (Vocal) (6:27)
12. Dmitri Shostakovich - IV. Allegro from Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 (4:26)
13. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Andante Cantabile for Cello Solo and String Orchestra, Op. posth. (8:21)
14. Johannes Brahms - IV. Rondo alla Zingarese. Presto from Quartet No. 1 in G minor for Piano and Strings, Op. 25 (8:05)
15. Antonín Dvořák - III. Finale. Allegro moderato from Concerto in B minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 104 (12:50)
DISC 2
01. César Camargo Mariano - Cristal (2:51)
02. Heitor Villa-Lobos - A lenda do caboclo (3:11)
03. Antonio Carlos Jobim - Chega de Saudade (Live) (5:02)
04. Paquito D'Rivera - Wapango (Live) (3:47)
05. Astor Piazzolla - Libertango (3:11)
06. Mark O'Connor - Appalachia Waltz (Solo Cello Version) (4:21)
07. Mark O'Connor - Butterfly's Day Out (4:46)
08. Edgar Meyer - 1B (4:02)
09. John Williams - Pickin' from Three Pieces for Solo Cello (2:34)
10. Yo-Yo Ma & Alison Krauss - Simple Gifts (2:31)
11. Ennio Morricone - The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe (3:12)
12. Ennio Morricone - The Mission: The Falls (2:28)
13. Tan Dun - The Eternal Vow (3:02)
14. David Wilde - The Cellist of Sarajevo, Op. 12 (6:57)
15. Fillippo Azzaiolo - Chi passa per'sta strada (4:42)
16. Li Cang Sang, Wu Tong, The Silk Road Ensemble, Yo-Yo Ma - Mido Mountain (Chinese Traditional) (3:52)
17. Indrajit Dey, Sandeep Das - Mohini (Enchantment) (1:47)
18. Claude Bolling - Baroque in Rhythm from Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio (4:26)
19. Cole Porter - Anything Goes (From "Anything Goes") (5:53)
20. Frederick Loewe - I Could Have Danced All Night (Extended version) (3:44)
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 Essential Yo-Yo Ma devotes one of its two discs to the classics and the other to a generous sampling of music Ma has explored from around the popular sphere and around the world, including selections from his Silk Road Project and from his disc devoted to the music of Ennio Morricone.
There's a lot to be said for this approach; Ma has really maintained parallel classical and crossover careers, and when it comes to actualy mixing things up on the concert stage, others have been bolder than he. The crossover second disc is nicely sequenced and remastered, concluding with a previously unreleased arrangement of "I Could Have Danced All Night" as a bonus track. It's a very reasonable greatest-hits group.
The first disc is less successful as a representation of Ma's abilities in traditional repertoire. No complete multi-movement works are included, and most of the performances included are of the encore type. The disc moves more or less chronologically, beginning with a group of Bach and Vivaldi melodies (though Ma's involvement with Vivaldi is underrepresented by the single Four Seasons movement included) and proceeding to Romantic and late Romantic works. Many of these pieces (Gershwin's Prelude No. 1, Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Massenet's Méditation) are arrangements, and a few could have been sacrificed to make room for the consistent warmth that Ma brings to, say, Dvorák's cello concerto. Still, there's nothing here that makes this set anything less than a good introduction to a great musician, one who connects with audiences in a way that was second nature to the famed virtuosi of the past.
There's a lot to be said for this approach; Ma has really maintained parallel classical and crossover careers, and when it comes to actualy mixing things up on the concert stage, others have been bolder than he. The crossover second disc is nicely sequenced and remastered, concluding with a previously unreleased arrangement of "I Could Have Danced All Night" as a bonus track. It's a very reasonable greatest-hits group.
The first disc is less successful as a representation of Ma's abilities in traditional repertoire. No complete multi-movement works are included, and most of the performances included are of the encore type. The disc moves more or less chronologically, beginning with a group of Bach and Vivaldi melodies (though Ma's involvement with Vivaldi is underrepresented by the single Four Seasons movement included) and proceeding to Romantic and late Romantic works. Many of these pieces (Gershwin's Prelude No. 1, Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Massenet's Méditation) are arrangements, and a few could have been sacrificed to make room for the consistent warmth that Ma brings to, say, Dvorák's cello concerto. Still, there's nothing here that makes this set anything less than a good introduction to a great musician, one who connects with audiences in a way that was second nature to the famed virtuosi of the past.
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