Yo Yo Ma - Appassionato
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Artist: Yo Yo MaEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-01-09
Music Label: SONY CLASSICS
Soundtracks:
- Going To School featuring John Williams
- IV. Allegretto poco mosso from Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano
- II. Andante con moto e poco rubato from Three Preludes
- II. Largo from "Winter", Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297 from the Four Seasons
- Doce de coco
- II. Largo from Concerto No. 1 in G minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 49
- Cinema Paradiso: Nostalgia from Giuseppe Tornatore Suite
- The Swan from Carnival of the Animals (Chamber Version)
- Yanzi (Swallow Song)
- II. Andante from Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor,
- Soledad
- No. 4 Mikin Pekko from Five Finnish Folk Songs
- First Impressions featuring Edgar Meyer; Mark O'Connor
- Song Without Words, Op. 109
- Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission featuring Ennio Morricone
Free Music Notes for Appassionato
Free Music Review: Soulful & Wide -- Best Yo-Yo MA CD if you only buy One
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are new to Yo-Yo Ma's music, I think this CD is the best "Best-Of" collection. I think it surpasses Silk Road Journeys (Beyond the Horizon & When Strangers Meet), New Impossibilities, and the Essential Yo-Yo Ma. I recommend all these other CDs as they are also beautiful, but if you can buy only one, I think Appassionato is it. The pieces are all lyrical and not excessively percussive, and fully exhibit Ma's classical-genre breaking style. It is a good balance between traditional classical pieces (although, Ma adds his own magic and makes his cello believe it is a violin, piano, oboe, or a brass instrument), and non-classical Asian/Turkish pieces. These other pieces use ancient instruments in heavily modified ways to sound good to our contemporary ears yet still retain their original haunting melodies. The Yanzi (Swallow Song) is an extended instrumental (better) version of a vocal piece from Beyond the Horizon. This has a highly unusual sound, very soulful. I kind of go crazy over this piece.
I rediscovered Yo-Yo Ma after about 25 years. I used to listen to him when he was a new rising star (from his teenage to early 20's). I recently saw him at the Kennedy Center and realized how his music has matured. A true master. I felt chills and had tears in my eyes. Every bowing and musical phrasing perfectly executed during a live performance (not a recording where you can go over anything less than perfect). There is a line in Ursula Le Guin's novel where an alien comes across an exceptionally beautiful ice-scape in the middle of a grueling journey on foot to save his people. He says, I am glad to have lived to experience this. Yo-Yo Ma was like that.
Appassionato Poster
Any new compilation CD starring Yo-Yo Ma is certain to please. This master of the cello takes the listener through so many types of music that the ear and mind never tire. The present selection is billed as a sort of "musical autobiography," and, indeed, it gives us a tour of Ma's musical life. The Silk Road Project is represented by Zhao's "Swallow Song," with its eerie, fascinating soundscape (specially re-recorded for this CD). We also accompany Ma on his excursions into the world of the baroque cello with Vivaldi or of the Finnish folk song (by Mamiya, a first recording). There are Gershwin's languid Second Prelude, with its intimations of the song "Summertime," and an all-new recording of a nine-minute heart-breaker by Astor Piazzolla ("Soledad"). Ma also gives us more familiar Brahms, Franck, and Saint-Saens. The compilation's mellow 65 minutes offer relaxing, beautiful music, all exquisitely played. Ma is joined by the best: Emanuel Ax, Kathryn Stott, John Williams (who plays piano on his own "Going to School" from Memoirs of a Geisha), Isaac Stern, and Claudio Abbado. This is a veritable Who's Who of superb musicians. --Robert LevineClassical Music CDs
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