LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven - Triple Concerto / Choral Fantasy Itzhak Perlman (violin) Daniel Barenboim (piano) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [ EMI Classics / EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Itzhak Perlman is joined by fellow veteran Daniel Barenboim and Yo-Yo Ma in two great Beethoven works |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] "I wasn't expecting to be absolutely bowled over by Colin Matthews's arrangement of the Fifth Symphony, but I was - and still am...Matthews has done a most impressive job." Gramophone |
Yo La Tengo
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (25th Anniversary Edition Limited 2LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 12/Aug/2022 ] "A stone cold classic." - Rolling Stone "The greatest band in the universe." - Pitchfork "I Can Hear The Heart helped teach people how to listen to music." - Stereogum |
J. S. BACH
Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites (2017 recording) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2018 ] "I don't think he has ever made a greater recording and his personal booklet notes help provide a conceptual setting for his playing." Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards Issue 2018 |
EDGAR MEYER / TRADITIONAL
Appalachia Waltz Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Edgar Meyer (bass) Mark O'Connor (violin) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] Yo-Yo Ma joins double-bassist Edgar Meyer and fiddler/violinist Mark O'Connor |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Hope Amid Tears - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / 3 CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] "Hope Amid Tears", the new album by Yo-Yo Ma together with his friend and pianist Emanuel Ax, presents Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano in the order in which they were composed, tracing an important arc in Beethoven's development. |
L. & N. BOULANGER / SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / VIARDOT-GARCIA
Merci Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Kathryn Stott (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Merci is a deeply personal expression of gratitude, a celebration of the powerful relationships that keep music alive. This effervescent recording is rooted in the compositions of Gabriel Fauré, whom Kathryn Stott calls her "musical soulmate," and... |
JOHN WILLIAMS
Yo-Yo Ma - A Gathering of Friends Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / New York Philharmonic Orchestra, John Williams [ Sony Music / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] The 40-year friendship between two musical titans, John Williams & Yo-Yo Ma, reaches a new peak with 'A Gathering of Friends.' The incredible warmth & brilliance of composer/conductor John Williams is felt throughout this album. |
YO-YO MA / STUART DUNCAN / EDGAR MEYER / CHRIS THILE
Not Our First Goat Rodeo Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Stuart Duncan (violin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Chris Thile (mandolin) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] The music featured in this stunning album is so complex to pull off that the group likens it to a goat rodeo - an aviation term for a situation in which 100 things need to go right to avoid disaster |
OSVALDO GOLIJOV / SUFJAN STEVENS / etc
Golijov: Azul Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / The Knights, Eric Jacobsen [ Warner Classics / CD - released 9/Aug/2017 ] "..sonic landscapes that are generally lush, lyrical, eclectic in instrumentation and melodic forms, and given to the expansive and hypnotic vistas of minimalism without the strict dependence on repetition" Gramophone |
BACH / MEYER / SAINT-SAENS / MORRICONE / VIVALDI / TAN DUN / etc
The Essential Yo-Yo Ma (Gold Series) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with various guests & accompaniments [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] "Discs with snippets like this have to be taken for what they are: appetizers for further exploration or just agreeable easy listening. What is never in doubt is the high quality of the playing and recording." (MusicWeb) |
Claude Bolling & Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with Marc Michel (bass) & Jean-Luc Dayan (drums)
Claude Bolling's Suite For Cello & Jazz Piano Trio [ CBS / CD - released 2/Feb/1984 ] This suite was recorded by Bolling, along with Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world's greatest cello players. Best suited for college-level and above players, Suite for Cello & Jazz Piano Trio has long been a best-selling recording that appeals to a variety of... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Symphony No 7 Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / West-Eastern Divan Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/May/2020 ] "This is a fine, generously-filled and well-recorded album of Beethoven's music, in traditional performances that are very good." MusicWeb May 2020 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Adagio and Fuge K.546 / Divertimento for Violin, Viola and Cello K.568 Gidon Kremer (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Music / CD - released 2/Feb/2022 ] Original recordings: March 1984 |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) Isaac Stern (violin) Jaime Laredo (viola) [ Sony Music Expanded Edition / CD - released 1/Nov/1992 ] "The playing of Emanuel Ax and his distinguished colleagues does the music proud: it has stature and nobility, but also delicacy and reticence where appropriate" - Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Double Concerto Op 102 (with Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor) Itzhak Perlman (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Teldec / CD - released 1/Feb/1997 ] "Perlman's 1993 Chicago version, strong and volatile, was recorded live… It makes an excellent coupling… with the powerful Perlman / Ma version of the Brahms Double Concerto" The Penguin Guide *** |
BRAHMS / MOZART / SAINT-GEORGES / BRUCH / MENDELSSOHN / SARASATE / etc
Jaime Laredo - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection Jaime Laredo (violin/viola) with Emanuel Ax (piano) Vladimir Sokoloff (piano), Yo Yo Ma (cello), Rudolf Serkin (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), etc [ Sony Classical / 22 CD Box Set - released 11/Jun/2021 ] The complete recordings by Grammy-winning violinist Jaime Laredo in a single 23-CD edition in celebration of his 80th birthday June 7, 2021. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein: The Composer [25 CD set] Jennie Tourel, Zino Francescatti, Benny Goodman, Nancy Walker, Carol Lawrence, Yo-Yo Ma, Alan Titus, Harolyn Blackwell, etc / Leonard Bernstein (cond) [ Sony Classical Masters / 25 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ] With his centenary upon us, Sony Classical releases the most comprehensive recorded collection ever released of the music of American conductor, composer and educator Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Mass Kevin Vortmann (tenor) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Westminster Symphonic Choir, Temple University Concert Choir, The American Boychoir, Yannick Né [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] "Nézet-Séguin might seem like just a bystander amid all the activity, but the fact that this recorded account is as coherent as it is attests to his multitasking strengths." Philadelphia Inquirer |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" / Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] "Kavakos, Ma and Ax play with profound sensitivity throughout, and the symphony's many magical moments lose next to nothing in translation." Gramophone |
ENNIO MORRICONE
Plays Ennio Morricone (Double Gatefold LP) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 24/Mar/2016 ] Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone is a 2004 album featuring recordings from Morricone's various film scores by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone. The album was recorded with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra and Gilda Buttà on piano. Morricone... |
LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Choral Fantasia Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / CD - released 6/Feb/2017 ] "They perform with the most tender expression in the slow movement, and there are fireworks from all three in the last movement" James Longstaffe |
BEETHOVEN / SIBELIUS / HAYDN / DEBUSSY / BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein Vol 1 Various orchestras conducted by Leonard Bernstein, with James Taylor, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Peter Serkin, Emanuel Ax (pianos), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ C Major DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2017 ] A box set celebrating Leonard Bernstein's upcoming 100th birthday including concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia as well as the prizewinning documentary Leonard Bernstein: Larger than... |
Yo La Tengo
Summer Sun (LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 25/Jan/2019 ] Made available again for 2019, Yo La Tengo's 2003 LP 'Summer Sun' sees the band exploring the sunny landscapes of summer, in every imaginable mode of music. |
Yo La Tengo
This Stupid World [ Matador / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. In their latest effort, the first full-length in five years, This Stupid World was created all by... |
Yo La Tengo
This Stupid World (Limited Blue Vinyl LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. In their latest effort, the first full-length in five years, This Stupid World was created all by... |
Yo La Tengo
This Stupid World (LP) [ Matador / 2 LP - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. In their latest effort, the first full-length in five years, This Stupid World was created all by... |
Yo Yo Ma
Soul Of The Tango (Translucent Red LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 4/Sep/2015 ] Inspired by a great passion for Astor Piazzolla's tango, The Soul Of The Tango is a critically acclaimed and essential work of the "Nuevo Tango", played by Yo-Yo Ma's world famous cello and many of Piazzolla's former friends and... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites (3LP) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 20/Sep/2023 ] Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Yo-Yo Ma's new album Six Evolutions - Bach Cello Suites, his third and final recording of these works. Bach and his Cellos Suites entered Yo-Yo Ma's life when he was four, when he learned the first... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Six (6) Cello Suites (1982 recording) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Great Performances / 2 CD - released 1/May/2011 ] "In this sublime music, Casals will never have an equal. But if you want a more modern version you can't do better than Yo-Yo Ma, who brings purity and intensity, and is not overbearingly recorded." (BBC Music) |
BACH / BOCCHERINI
Simply Baroque Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Oct/2016 ] "Listening to the two Boccherini works on this marvellous CD reminds you again of Ma's uncanny technical facility, at once elegant and unselfconsciously virtuosic. Ton Koopman provides the cadenzas and the performances are pure delight." (Gramophone) |
TRADITIONAL
Sing Me Home Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Silk Road Ensemble, with Lisa Fischer, Gregory Porter, Bill Frisell, and others [ Sony Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] The new album from Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble will surprise and delight with imaginative sounds that transform the traditional musical landscape. SING ME HOME is the sixth album by the Grammy®-nominated Silk Road Ensemble and its founding... |
TRADITIONAL
Songs Of Joy & Peace Yo-Yo Ma (cello) & friends, including Alison Krauss, Edgar Meyer, Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, Chris Botti, etc [ Sony Classical / CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] "joy can't exist in our world without the comfort of peace. As we all draw closer and closer together in this world, nothing is more important." Yo-Yo Ma |
J. S. BACH
Yo-Yo Ma: The Bach Project: Cello Suites - Live from Athens BLU-RAY Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/May/2020 ] In 2018, Yo-Yo Ma began a two-year journey, setting out to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's six suites for solo cello in one sitting, across 36 locations on 6 continents. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1-3 (Complete) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) Leonidas Kavakos (violin) [ Sony Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2017 ] "The quality of their playing is never in doubt, and the ensemble is faultless. There's tremendous authority in the assertive movements...but there could be something more personal in the more wistfully introspective ones." The Guardian |
ANONYMOUS / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Songs of Comfort & Hope Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Kathryn Stott (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott come together again, this time for Songs of Comfort and Hope, set for release on December 11, 2020 on Sony Classical. Available now for preorder, Songs of Comfort and Hope is inspired by the series of... |
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
Salonen: Cello Concerto Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Sony Classical / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Contemporary |
PIAZZOLLA / JOBIM / BOLLING / PORTER / TRADITIONAL / etc
Yo-Yo Ma - Crossing Borders Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with Stephane Grappelli (violin) Sergio & Odair Assad (guitars) Claude Bolling (piano) Bobby McFerrin (vocals) Mark O'Connor (violin) [ Sony Classical Masters / 9 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ] Yo-Yo Ma's multi-faceted career is testament to his continual search for new ways to communicate with audiences, and to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. This CD box set features nine of Yo-Yo's classic cross-over albums. |
Niko Ne Zna
Niko Ne Zna [ Monkey Records / CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] This is the self-titled, debut EP from Wellington's balkan, gypsy brass extravaganza - featuring delicious arrangements of five traditional and original Gypsy tunes |
Niko Ne Zna
Renegade Brass Band [ Monkey Records / CD - released 22/Feb/2013 ] New Zealand's very own Balkan Gypsy brass extravaganza, this 8 piece band has evolved into a true Gypsy juggernaut... |