Artist: Yo-Yo Ma
Title: Yo-Yo Ma Plays The Music Of John Williams
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical
Quality: SACD (DST64 2.0, DST64 5.1; Image.iso)
Total Time: 01:06:33 min
Total Size: 4,02 Gb
Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams is a 2002 album of John Williams compositions performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles.
For an instrument with such rich expressive powers, the cello has long suffered from a shortage of great concertos. Leave it to John Williams, the composer best known for his popular, emotionally charged scores to Star Wars, E.T., and many other blockbuster movies, to ride to the rescue with a new "Cello Concerto", an intense, expressive, and rhythmically vital offering tailor-made for Yo-Yo Ma's dexterous touch.
Like the composer's "Violin Concerto", this one is imbued with impressionistic textures and colors, but there's also a hard-driving, modern edge. Call it 21st-century Ravel. Williams wrote the concerto with Ma in mind, and it's a test of even Ma's formidable technique. It also boasts powerful orchestral writing, especially for the percussion and brass.
Three other premieres are included on the album as well. The "Elegy for Cello and Orchestra" is a lyrical and atmospheric tone poem, with shades of Fauré at every turn of phrase. The expressionistic "Three Pieces for Solo Cello", though, seem more akin to Benjamin Britten's solo cello suites in their abstract, concentrated intensity. Heartwood is another tender and sensitive reverie. It gradually builds in strength but ends as it began, with a whisper of tranquil serenity.
Ma's virtuosity is dazzling, and his engagement with the music is typically deep. He makes clear that Williams' music isn't just for the movies; indeed, with his new concerto, Williams has done the cello a great service.
Tracklist:
Concerto For Cello And Orchestra
01. I. Theme And Cadenza
02. II. Blues
03. III. Scherzo
04. IV. Song
05. Elegy For Cello And Orchestra
Three Pieces For Solo Cello
06. I. Rosewood
07. II. Pickin'
08. III. The Long Way North
09. Heartwood
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