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Yo-Yo Ma Plays Cello Masterworks is an eight-CD box set of previously released material recorded in the 1980s and 1990s, and presumably so familiar to his fans that the package doesn't even come with a booklet. It really is a no-frills affair, right down to the thin cardboard sleeves that repeat the same photograph on the box, instead of offering original cover art. But the greatest disappointment is that only three of J.S. Bach's Six Cello Suites were included, so listeners seeking them should forego this budget package and find the complete suites, which Ma recorded twice. Ma's popular albums of virtuoso works for cello and orchestra by Vivaldi, Boccherini, Haydn, Schumann, Dvorák, Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Walton, Elgar, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky reappear here, in different configurations to maximize space, and the set is rounded out with recordings with pianist Emanuel Ax of chamber works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann. A reasonable sampling of this cellist's classical output is represented,...
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Yo-Yo Ma Plays Cello Masterworks is an eight-CD box set of previously released material recorded in the 1980s and 1990s, and presumably so familiar to his fans that the package doesn't even come with a booklet. It really is a no-frills affair, right down to the thin cardboard sleeves that repeat the same photograph on the box, instead of offering original cover art. But the greatest disappointment is that only three of J.S. Bach's Six Cello Suites were included, so listeners seeking them should forego this budget package ...
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- Double Cello Concerto, for 2 cellos, strings & continuo in G minor, RV 531
- Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in F minor ("L'inverno"), RV 297, Op. 8/4 (The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 4): Largo
- Cello Concerto, for cello, strings & continuo in B flat major, RV 423
- La fida ninfa, opera, RV 714: Così sugl' occhi miei
- Double Concerto, for viola d'amore & lute, strings & continuo in D minor, RV 540
- Giustino, opera, RV 717: La gloria del mio sangue
- Cello Concerto, for cello, strings & continuo in C minor ("Alla Rustica"), RV 401
- Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernes barbarie, oratorio, RV 644: Noli, ò cara, te adorantis
- Gloria, for 3 solo voices, chorus, trumpet, oboe, violin (ad lib), 2 violas, 2 cellos, strings & continuo in D major, RV 589: Laudamus Te
- Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernes barbarie, oratorio, RV 644: Quanto magis generosa
- La fida ninfa, opera, RV 714: Dite oihmè
- Cello Concerto in B flat major, G. 482
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, H. 7b/1
- Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, H. 7b/2 (Op. 101)
- Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
- Cello Concerto in B minor, B. 191 (Op. 104)
- Silent Woods (Klid), for cello & orchestra, B. 182 (Op. 68/5) (arr. from From the Bohemian Forest, B. 133)
- Rondo for cello & orchestra in G minor, B. 181 (Op. 94)
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
- Cello Concerto in D minor
- Cello Concerto
- Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, for cello & orchestra (or cello & piano) in A major, Op. 33
- Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
- Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
- Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011
- Sonata for cello & piano No. 1 in F major, Op. 5/1
- Sonata for cello & piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
- Variations for cello & piano in E flat major on Mozart's "Bei Männern," WoO 46
- Variations for cello & piano in F major on Mozart's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen," Op. 66
- Sonata for cello & piano No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
- Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
- Adagio & Allegro for horn (or violin or cello) & piano in A flat major, Op. 70
- Phantasiestücke (3 Fantasy Pieces) for clarinet (or cello or violin) & piano, Op. 73
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