

This is one of two companion albums for Yo-Yo Ma’s globe-trotting Silk Road Project, which has raced around the world both conceptually and literally, with

Blues and Bottesini is a more apt title for this album of double bass concertos. Anyone familiar with Edgar Meyer’s recent best-selling bluegrass/classical collaborations (“Appalachia

Schumann’s Symphonic Studies Op. 13 make an interesting foil to the two concertos heard on this recording, but it’s a pity they’re placed first, before

Two great British cello concertos on one excellent mid-priced reissue! It’s an offer too good to miss, and these performances by Yo-Yo Ma with the

The Mark O’Connor/Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer power trio took a while to follow up their 1996 hit Appalachia Waltz, yet, no doubt about it, Appalachian Journey

In his relentless quest to explore uncharted territories of cellodom, Yo-Yo Ma has delivered a recital for unaccompanied cello that–daringly–hasn’t any Bach. Instead, there are

Brahms’ Second Concerto has long figured in Emanuel Ax’s repertoire, yet he has not gotten around to recording it until now. The lightness and grace
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