Yo-Yo Ma - Plays the Music of John Williams (2002) [DSD 5.1, 2.0 1bit/2822,4kHz | SACD-R]<Classical - Orchestral>

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Yo-Yo Ma plays the Cello Concerto and a selection of other pieces for cello and orchestra or solo cello written by John Williams. The composer conducts.

Review from Positive Feedback
The overall album title here is Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams. The two musicians have been friends for years and have performed some of the standard cello concertos together in concert. The major work of the Cello Concerto here resulted from a suggestion of conductor Seiji Ozawa. It was first performed in 1994 at Tanglewood and is in four non-stop movements. All of them provide plenty of opportunity for Ma’s virtuosity to be demonstrated. The second movement is a Blues, and Williams reports he was influenced by the ghosts of Ellington and Strayhorn in this section. The Elegy grew out of some of the material Williams had penned for the soundtrack of the movie Seven Years in Tibet, for which Ma was cello soloist. Both these works are less tonal and accessible than Williams’ film score music, but Ma’s glistening cello tones seem to hold things together. In Heartwood Williams was inspired partly by a collection of tree photographs given him by a friend, and partly by his memories of listening to the moody and impressionistic arrangements of the Claude Thornhill Orchestra in the 30s and 40s. The surrounds provide a subtle feeling of the concert hall or studio—no details are given on the recording venue, and Ma’s cello is dead center. So I hope you’re not saddled with a center channel speaker whose timbre is entirely different from the other four main speakers – as so many are.

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