Classic Yo-Yo

by Yo-Yo Ma

Classic Yo-Yo cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 18 September 2001
  • Label: Sony Classical
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:19
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Classic Yo-Yo' compiles Yo-Yo Ma's Sony Classical recordings, centred on the Bach cello suites that have run through his career. The collection presents the cellist's core classical repertoire, from Baroque suites to Romantic concertos, in performances that made him classical music's most visible soloist.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, instrumental, strings, melodic, complex

Tracklist

  1. Prelude, Cello Suite No. 1 (2:22)
  2. Tango Sensations: Fear (5:22)
  3. Butterfly's Day Out (4:43)
  4. Was Gott Tut, Das Ist Wohlgetan (1:30)
  5. Slavonic Dance In E Minor (5:01)
  6. Prelude No. 1 (1:42)
  7. "American Collection" Theme (3:29)
  8. 1b (3:59)
  9. IV, Allegro Molto, Sonata In F Major (4:37)
  10. The Eternal Vow (2:58)
  11. Erbarme Dich, St. Matthew Passion (7:20)
  12. IV, Allegro Molto, Quartet In G Minor (9:11)
  13. Vocalise (6:24)
  14. Libertango (3:08)
  15. Simple Gifts (3:08)
  16. Appalachia Waltz (4:25)

Credits

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - composed by
  • Astor Piazzolla - composed by
  • Mark O'Connor - composed by
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k - composed by
  • George Gershwin - composed by
  • John Williams - composed by
  • Edgar Meyer - composed by
  • Johannes Brahms - composed by
  • Tan Dun - composed by
  • Gabriel Faur茅 - composed by
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff - composed by
  • Traditional - written-by

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