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Goat Rodeo Sessions / Yo-Yo- Ma, Stuart Cuncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile - Deluxe Edition [CD & DVD-Video]

2 DVD Video / Sony Classical / 2012-10-22

Works: Chris Thile: Attaboy, for bass, cello, fiddle & mandolin; Quarter Chicken Dark, for bass, cello, fiddle & mandolin; Helping Hand, for bass, cello, fiddle & mandolin; Where's My Bow?, for bass, cello,...
Performers: Duncan, Stuart; Ma, Yo-Yo; Meyer, Edgar; O'Donovan, Aoife; Thile, Chris

The Goat Rodeo Sessions has sold over 160,000 albums, debuted at #23 on the Billboard Top 200 chart (Yo-Yo Ma's highest debut), #1 on Billboard's...continue...
Recording information: The Barn, Lenox, Massachusetts (2011-06-12_2011-06-15&2011-).

The last time cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed with bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin player Chris Thile (of Nickel Cr...continue...

David Shifrin & Friends - works by Copland, Hartke, Kernis and Zwilich / Chamber Music Northwest

1 CD / Delos / 2012-07-31

Works: Aaron Copland: Sextet, for clarinet, piano & string quartet (arr. of Symphony no 2); Stephen Hartke: The Horse with the Lavender Eye, episodes (4) for violin, clarinet & piano; Aaron Jay Kernis: Trio...
Performers: Arm, Theodore; Ching, Daniel; Cho, Catherine; Cox, John [Horn]; DePonte, Niel; Feves, Julie; Gindele, Joshua; Heard, Cornelia; Kavafian, Ani; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Kuhns, Sally Nelson; Largess, Joh...
Conductors: ; Wilson, Ransom
Ensemble: ; Chamber Music Northwest

'... a score truly inspired by a tragic event (9/11) and one that is likely to transcend it.' - Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine...continue...

Goat Rodeo Sessions / Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-10-24

Works: Chris Thile: Attaboy, for bass, cello, fiddle & mandolin; Quarter Chicken Dark, for bass, cello, fiddle & mandolin; Helping Hand, for bass, cello, fiddle & mandolin; Where's My Bow?, for bass, cello,...
Performers: Duncan, Stuart; Ma, Yo-Yo; Meyer, Edgar; O'Donovan, Aoife; Thile, Chris

Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world's most celebrated cellists, returns with a genre-defying recording featuring four great American musicians.

Yo-Yo Ma once again embraces styles and...continue...
Recording information: The Barn, Lenox, Massachusetts (2011-06-12_2011-06-15&2011-).

The last time cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed with bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin player Chris Thile (of Nickel Cr...continue...

Appalachia Waltz / Yo-Yo Ma

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-05-03

Works: Irish Traditional: Work(s); Mark O'Connor: Appalachia Waltz; Butterfly's Day Out; F.C.'s Jig, for violin & cello; Old Country Fairytale, for violin, cello & double bass; Fair Dancer Reel; American Tr...
Performers: Ma, Yo-Yo; Meyer, Edgar; O'Connor, Mark [Violin]

This selection is also available in MiniDisc format.

Recording information: Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennessee (08/17/1995-08/20/1995).

APPALACHIA WALTZ brings together classical music...continue...

At Home with Friends

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2009-09-29

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; John Dowland: Come Again; Astor Piazzolla: Enrico IV; Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso; Traditional: Para Ti; Richard Rodgers: My Funny Valentine; I'll Take Manhattan...
Performers: Abt-Greenfield, Meryl; Bell, Joshua; Blinn, David; Botti, Chris; Bush, Sam; Chatterjee, Samir; Chenoweth, Kristin; Childs, Billy; Denk, Jeremy; Eggar, Dave [Piano]; Erdody, Stephen; Finck, David; Gro...
Conductors: Redford, J.A.C.;
Ensemble: ; Tiempo Libre

The concept of 'At Home With Friends' was inspired by Bell's long-time practice of holding "musical soirees" at his New York residence - eclectic gatherings...continue...
Personnel: Joshua Bell (violin); Frankie Moreno, Regina Spektor (vocals, piano); Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Sting (vocals); Nathan Gunn (baritone); Sam Bush, Mike Marshall (guitar, mandolin); Ro...continue...

The Best of Edgar Meyer / Ma, Bell, O'Connor, Fleck, et al

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2007-09-04

Works: Traditional: Work(s); Edgar Meyer: Sliding Down; Please Don't Feed the Bear, for double bass, banjo, gamba, mandolin & acoustic guitar; Concert Duo, for violin & double bass; Early Morning, for doubl...
Performers: Bell, Joshua; Fleck, Bela; Ma, Yo-Yo; Marshall, Mike [Guitar/Mandolin]; Meyer, Edgar; O'Connor, Mark [Violin]
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh
Ensemble: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

The Best of Edgar Meyer brings together many of the composer/bassist's own works as well as collaborations with other artists....continue...
Personnel: Edgar Meyer (various instruments, double bass); Béla Fleck (guitar, banjo); Mike Marshall (mandolin); Joshua Bell (violin)....continue...

Appassionato / Yo-Yo Ma

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2007-01-09

Works: John Williams: Going To School, for cello & piano; César Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, M 8; George Gershwin: Preludes (3) for piano; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in F m...
Performers: Ax, Emanuel; Brunetti, Octavio; Casadesus, Gaby; D'Rivera, Paquito; Entremont, Philippe; Fan, Joel; Kahane, Jeffrey; Lubambo, Romero; Ma, Yo-Yo; Meyer, Edgar; O'Connor, Mark [Violin]; Stern, Isaac; S...
Conductors: Koopman, Ton; Ormandy, Eugene; Morricone, Ennio; Abbado, Claudio

This album represents the entire span of Ma's recording career, beginning with his first recording (Saint-Saens 'The Swan') and culminating with three new tracks by...continue...
Appassionato (2007), the follow-up album to the well-received Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone (2005), is a 15-track collection of love-themed material handpicked by the classical crossover cellist hims...continue...

Edgar Meyer

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2006-04-25

Works: Edgar Meyer: First Things First; Roundabout; Interlude no 1; Please Don't Feed the Bear; Whatever; In Hindsight; Interlude no 2; The Low Road; Just As I Thought; Catch and Release; Interlude no 3; Wo...
Performers: Meyer, Edgar

The Essential Yo-Yo Ma

2 CD / Sony Classical / 2005-08-16

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for solo cello no 1 in G major, BWV 1007; Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174); Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt," (Hunt Cantata), BWV 208 ...
Performers: Agri, Antonio; Alimjan; Assad, Odair [Guitar]; Assad, Sergio [Guitar/Composer]; Ax, Emanuel; Baptista, Cyro; Bolling, Claude; Burr, Jon [Bass]; Butta, Gilda; Casadesus, Gaby; Console, Hector; Cossin,...
Conductors: Koopman, Ton; Maazel, Lorin; Masur, Kurt; Morricone, Ennio; Chen, Xieyang; Tan Dun;
Ensemble: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Claude Bolling Ensemble; New York Philharmonic; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Roma Sinfonietta; Shanghai National Orchestra; Shanghai Percussion Ensemble; Shanghai Symph...

This is the essential collection from one of the most popular musicians of our time and includes 34 tracks spanning Yo Yo Ma's entire careere...continue...
The Essential Yo-Yo Ma seems to be a presentation of the recordings in which the esteemed cellist has participated that might have the widest appeal to the general market. There's nothing wrong with t...continue...

Meyer & Bottesini: Concertos

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2002-06-11

Works: Edgar Meyer: Double Concerto for cello, double bass & orchestra; Concerto for Double Bass in D major; Giovanni Bottesini: Double-bass Concerto no 2 in B minor; Gran Duo concertante for Violin, Double...
Performers: Bell, Joshua; Ma, Yo-Yo; Meyer, Edgar
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh
Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

Classic Yo-Yo

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2001-09-18

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for solo cello no 1 in G major, BWV 1007; Cantata no 75 "Die Elenden sollen essen" BWV 75; Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Astor Piazzolla: Five Tango Sensations, for ban...
Performers: Agri, Antonio; Alimjan; Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Ax, Emanuel; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Console, Hector; Cossin, David; Kahane, Jeffrey; Kasim; Krauss, Alison; Laredo, Jaime; Ma, Yo-Yo; Malvicin...
Conductors: Koopman, Ton; Ozawa, Seiji; Williams, John;
Ensemble: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Recording Arts Orchestra; Shanghai National Orchestra; Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Personnel: Alison Krauss, Bobby McFerrin (vocals); Horacio Malvicino (guitar); Mark O'Connor (mandolin); Antonio Agri, Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern (violin); Néstor Marconi (bandoneon); Emanuel A...continue...

Classical Hits / Brightman, Church, Ma, Pavarotti, et al

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2001-09-11

Works: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem; The Phantom of the Opera; Tonci Huljic: Victory; John Williams: Star Wars, Episode I; James Horner: Titanic; Braveheart; Ennio Morricone: Nella fantasia, for voice & orc...
Performers: Bell, Joshua; Bond; Boston Pops; Brightman, Sarah; Carreras, Jose; Church, Charlotte; Domingo, Placido; Fleming, Renee; Horner, James; Ma, Yo-Yo; Marsalis, Wynton; Meyer, Edgar; O'Connor, Mark [Violi...
Conductors: Williams, John; Horner, James

Are you tired of your classically minded friends laughing at you when you mispronounce the names of renowned, long-expired European composers? Do you think the Three Tenors are the latest teenage boy ...continue...

Heartland - An Appalachian Anthology /Ma, Bell, Fleck, et al

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2001-07-03

Works: Edgar Meyer: Short Trip Home; 1B; Sliding Down; BT; Old Tyme; Death by Triple Fiddle; Traditional: Johnny has gone for a soldier; Soldier's Joy; College Hornpipe; Amazing Grace; Mark O'Connor: Appala...
Performers: Barenberg, Russ; Bayers, Eddie; Bell, Joshua; Bush, Sam; Douglas, Jerry; Fleck, Bela; Jarvis, John; Krauss, Alison; Ma, Yo-Yo; Marshall, Mike [Bluegrass]; Meyer, Edgar; Mock, John; O'Connor, Mark [Vi...

Listen to the Storyteller - Marsalis, Meyer, Doyle

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1999-09-07

Works: Wynton Marsalis: The Fiddler and the Dancing Witch; Edgar Meyer: The Lesson of the Land; Patrick Doyle: The Face in the Lake
Performers: Bell, Joshua; Douglas, Jerry; Greene, Graham; Marsalis, Wynton; Meyer, Edgar; Winslet, Kate
Conductors: Sadin, Robert; Mercurio, Steven
Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's

Short Trip Home / Bell, Meyer, Bush & Marshall

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1999-09-07

Works: Edgar Meyer: Short Trip Home; Hang Hang; BT; In the Nick of Time; Concert Duo for Violin and Double Bass; BP; If I Knew; OK, All Right; Death by Triple Fiddle
Performers: Bell, Joshua; Bush, Sam; Marshall, Mike [Bluegrass]; Meyer, Edgar

This recording was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for "Best Classical

Crossover Album."

Bassist Edgar Meyer, equally at home in Nashville or Lincoln Center, likes to invite his cla...continue...

Appalachia Waltz

1 CD / Sony / 1996-09-17

Works: N/A: The Green Groves of Erin; Mark O'Connor: Appalachia Waltz; Butterfly's Day Out; F.C.'s Jig, for violin & cello; Old Country Fairytale, for violin, cello & double bass; Fair Dancer Reel; American...
Performers: Ma, Yo-Yo; Meyer, Edgar; O'Connor, Mark [Violin]

This selection is also available in MiniDisc format.

Personnel: Yo-Yo Ma (cello); Mark O'Connor (mandolin, violin); Edgar Meyer (piano, double bass).

Recording information: Sound Empori...continue...