Yo Yo Ma

This is a beautiful performance of the Suites, certainly one of my favorites. Ma tunes his strings down a half step, giving his cello a warmer, richer tone than his 80s recording (pink cover). All in all, the differences between the two recordings are startling, and it is very interesting to compare the two. I especially like the more dancelike movements (examples: Suite 1 - Courante, Suite 2 - Minuets), and don't believe that anyone else plays them with as much elegance, which I think is the greatest attribute of Yo-Yo Ma's recordings.

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) inhabits a "sound world" uniquely his own: moody, harmonically complex, sometimes neurotically so, melodically elusive. Less readily accessible than either of his French contemporaries, Debussy and Ravel, Faure's chamber music, nonetheless, is infinitely rewarding and certainly should be more widely recorded and available.
This remarkably rich offering of Faure's only two piano quartets (in C Minor, Op. 15 and G Minor, Op. 45) will, no doubt, go a long way in re-energizing interest in this coupling of the composer's most "popular" ensemble works.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has long been a giant in the classical world, though he has also made a number of recordings with musicians who play other styles. This holiday disc doesn't exclusively stick to traditional Christmas songs, but covers a wide scope of material in a very ambitious manner.

This is a charming, lovely, beautiful, even adorable recording just as charming and adorable as Yo-Yo Ma's previous "Simply Baroque" recording. Suffice it to say, if you liked the first you'll love the second. It offers more beautiful tunes by Bach and gorgeous concertos by Boccherini performed with exquisite taste and musicianship by the world's best-loved cellist, accompanied by Ton Koopman, one the world's greatest Bach interpreters, and recorded in warm, atmospheric sound.

John Williams skillfully utilizes the formidable talents of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and equally beloved violinist Itzhak Perlman to flesh out director Rob Marshall's celluloid rendering of the bestselling novel by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha. Elegant and predictable, Williams sticks to the source, building grand Western themes off of traditional Japanese melodies with a heady mix of regional instrumentation (shakuhachi and koto) and cinematic know-how.

Despues de escuchar detenidamente el triple concierto se puede decir que tanto la orquesta y el director como los solistas son excelentes y no hay que dejarse llevar por lo del sonido o como dijo otro reviewer que cuando se grabó el disco Yo Yo Ma contaba con 12 años porque no es asi el concierto fue grabado en 1980 cuando contaba la edad de 25 años y era un consumado violoncelista, con respecto a las oberturas si son anteriores pero estan repetidas en otras obras como ser la sinfonias de Beethoven con un sonido realmente extraordianario.