Ma, Yo-Yo / Stott, Kathryn: Songs from the Arc of Life (Vinyl LP)
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Double vinyl LP pressing. Longtime friends, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, create a unique classical music experience with their 2015 recording, Songs from the Arc of Life. The album includes pieces they have frequently performed but never recorded, as well as a handful of discoveries. Songs from the Arc of Life begins and ends with two, much-beloved settings of the traditional Ave Maria, opening with the soaring, radiant Bach/Gounod arrangement and closing with Schubert's more serene, contemplative version. In between is a remarkable spectrum of music that includes such enduring favorites as Brahms' Lullaby, Dvorák's Songs My Mother Taught Me, Elgar's Salut d'amour, Gade's Jalousie and Saint-Saëns' The Swan, as well as richly evocative works by Debussy, Delius, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kriesler, Messaien, Schumann, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. Ma and Stott also include a haunting piece by the contemporary composer Giovanni Sollima, a friend and colleague of both artists. Ave Maria, Lullaby (Wiegenlied Op. 49 No. 4), Songs My Mother Taught Me (From Gypsy Songs Op. 55 No. 4), Papillon Op. 77, Tango Jalousie, I. Vanitas Vanitatum (From Five Pieces in the Popular Style Op. 102), Was It a Dream? Op. 37 No. 4, Après Un Rêve Op. 7 No. 1, Salut D'amour Op. 12, Prelude No. 1 (From Three Preludes), Romance for Cello and Piano, La Gitana, Il Bell'antonio Tema III
Double vinyl LP pressing. Longtime friends, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, create a unique classical music experience with their 2015 recording, Songs from the Arc of Life. The album includes pieces they have frequently performed but never recorded, as well as a handful of discoveries. Songs from the Arc of Life begins and ends with two, much-beloved settings of the traditional Ave Maria, opening with the soaring, radiant Bach/Gounod arrangement and closing with Schubert's more serene, contemplative version. In between is a remarkable spectrum of music that includes such enduring favorites as Brahms' Lullaby, Dvorák's Songs My Mother Taught Me, Elgar's Salut d'amour, Gade's Jalousie and Saint-Saëns' The Swan, as well as richly evocative works by Debussy, Delius, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kriesler, Messaien, Schumann, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. Ma and Stott also include a haunting piece by the contemporary composer Giovanni Sollima, a friend and colleague of both artists. Ave Maria, Lullaby (Wiegenlied Op. 49 No. 4), Songs My Mother Taught Me (From Gypsy Songs Op. 55 No. 4), Papillon Op. 77, Tango Jalousie, I. Vanitas Vanitatum (From Five Pieces in the Popular Style Op. 102), Was It a Dream? Op. 37 No. 4, Après Un Rêve Op. 7 No. 1, Salut D'amour Op. 12, Prelude No. 1 (From Three Preludes), Romance for Cello and Piano, La Gitana, Il Bell'antonio Tema III