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When Yo-Yo Ma’s first recording of the Bach cello suites appeared in 1983, the young cellist’s beautifully sculpted if sometimes generalized interpretations easily held their
It was perhaps inevitable in this day of corporate “synergies”
Before he lost interest in classical music, at the very
Antonin Dvorák’s Piano Quartet No. 2 is one of the greatest chamber works of the 19th century (as are many of Dvorák’s chamber compositions). Written
The notion of fantasy bonds these four John Corigliano works in title and spirit. In the Fancy on a Bach Air, the composer forges a
Time remains kind to Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax’s 1984 Brahms cello sonatas, from RCA’s warm, intimate sonics to each player’s impeccable technique and sensitive
This was Yo-Yo Ma’s second go at the Dvorák Cello Concerto for Sony, and it marked a big improvement over the rather lackluster recording he
The “concept” here seems to be nothing more ambitious than creating an album that is “pretty”–and so it is in a very superficial sense. However,
Director Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi trilogy concludes with Naqoyqatsi, a word derived from Hopi culture meaning “life as war”. As with its predecessors Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi,
So often people think, ‘Oh, Bach is heavy music, very difficult,’ Ton Koopman is quoted as saying in the liner notes of this new CD.
