Longtime friends, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, create a unique classical music experience with their new recording. It includes pieces they have frequently performed but never recorded, as well as a handful of discoveries.
Ave Maria / Johann Sebestian Bach, Charles Gounod (1:39) -- Lullaby : op. 49, no. 4 / Johannes Brahms (:50) -- Gypsy songs : op. 55, no. 4. Songs my mother taught me / Antonín Dvořák (1:34) -- Papillon : op. 77 / Gabriel Fauré (1:28) -- Tango jalousie / Jacob Gade (2:00) -- Five pieces in the popular style : op. 102. Vanitas vanitatum / Robert Schumann (2:01) -- Was it a dream? : op. 37, no. 4 / Jean Sibelius (1:59) -- Après un rêve : op. 7, no. 1 / Gabriel Fauré (1:43) -- Salut d'amour : op. 12 / Edward Elgar (1:35) -- Three preludes. Prelude no. 1 / George Gershwin (:56) -- Romance for cello and piano / Frederick Delius (1:55) -- La gitana / Fritz Kreisler (1:58) -- Il bell'Antonio. Tema III / Giovanni Sollima (2:49) -- Carnival of the animals. The swan / Camille Saint-Saëns) (2:05) -- Elegiac melodies : op. 34, no. 1. The wounded heart / Edvard Grieg (2:07) -- Valse sentimentale : op. 51, no. 6 / Peter Tchaikovsky (2:02) -- Quartet for the end of time. Louange à l'éternité de Jésus / Olivier Messiaen (2:44) -- Beau soir / Claude Debussy (2:58) -- Ave Maria : op. 52, no. 6 / Franz Schubert (1:45).
Note
Principally arrangements for cello and piano.
Credits (note)
Produced by Steven Epstein.
Title
Songs from the arc of life.
Publisher
New York, NY : Sony Classical, [2015]
Copyright date
℗2015
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Yo-Yo Ma, cello ; Kathryn Stott, piano.
Credits
Produced by Steven Epstein.
Event
Recorded March 28, 30 & 31, 2015, at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts.