Audio CD review:
Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, Jacob do Bandolim, Johannes Brahms, Cesar Franck, George Gershwin, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Michio Mamiya, Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Meyer - Appassionato

Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, Jacob do Bandolim, Johannes Brahms, Cesar Franck, George Gershwin, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Michio Mamiya, Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Meyer - Appassionato

Band: Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, Jacob do Bandolim, Johannes Brahms, Cesar Franck, George Gershwin, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Michio Mamiya, Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Meyer Title: Appassionato Rating: Release Date: 09 January, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Going To School featuring John Williams 2: IV. Allegretto poco mosso from Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano 3: II. Andante con moto e poco rubato from Three Preludes 4: II. Largo from "Winter", Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297 from the Four Seasons 5: Doce de coco 6: II. Largo from Concerto No. 1 in G minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 49 7: Cinema Paradiso: Nostalgia from Giuseppe Tornatore Suite 8: The Swan from Carnival of the Animals (Chamber Version) 9: Yanzi (Swallow Song) 10: II. Andante from Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, 11: Soledad 12: No. 4 Mikin Pekko from Five Finnish Folk Songs 13: First Impressions featuring Edgar Meyer; Mark O'Connor 14: Song Without Words, Op. 109 15: Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission featuring Ennio Morricone

Editoral Review This master of the cello takes the listener through so many types of music that the ear and mind never tire. Any new compilation CD starring Yo-Yo Ma is certain to please. The present selection is billed as a sort of "musical autobiography," and, indeed, it gives us a tour of Ma's musical life. The Silk Road Project is represented by Zhao's "Swallow Song," with its eerie, fascinating soundscape (specially re-recorded for this CD). We also accompany Ma on his excursions into the world of the baroque cello with Vivaldi or of the Finnish folk song (by Mamiya, a first recording). There are Gershwin's languid Second Prelude, with its intimations of the song "Summertime," and an all-new recording of a nine-minute heart-breaker by Astor Piazzolla ("Soledad"). Ma also gives us more familiar Brahms, Franck, and Saint-Saens. The compilation's mellow 65 minutes offer relaxing, beautiful music, all exquisitely played. Ma is joined by the best: Emanuel Ax, Kathryn Stott, John Williams (who plays piano on his own "Going to School" from Memoirs of a Geisha), Isaac Stern, and Claudio Abbado. This is a veritable Who's Who of superb musicians. --Robert Levine .. You can see a complete list of all Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, Jacob do Bandolim, Johannes Brahms, Cesar Franck, George Gershwin, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Michio Mamiya, Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Meyer discography, or go back to the Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, Jacob do Bandolim, Johannes Brahms, Cesar Franck, George Gershwin, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Michio Mamiya, Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Meyer tabs