Yo-Yo Ma – Solo (1999) {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

Bach showed that the cello can dance, but composers from Rossini to Shostakovich have favored it as an instrument of pensive reflection and brooding melancholy. The playful cover photo notwithstanding, SOLO features Yo-Yo Ma in five 20th century cello works of a serious nature, all with folk influence and all echoing at least a bit of the troubles of the times in which they were written.

Tracklist

Mark O’Connor
01. Appalachia Waltz

Bright Sheng – Seven Tunes Heard In China, for cello
02. Seasons
03. Guessing Song
04. Little Cabbage
05. The Drunken Fisherman
06. Diu Diu Dong
07. Pastoral Ballade
08. Tibetan Dance

David Wilde
09. The Cellist of Sarajevo

Alexander Tcherepnin – Suite for solo cello
10. Quasi Candenza
11. Quarter Note = 96
12. Eighth note = 42
13. Vivace (quartet note = 104)

Zoltan Kodaly – Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8
14. Allegro Maestoso ma Appassionato
15. Adagio
16. Allegro Molto Vivace

Recorded at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA, February 1-5, and at American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY, June 23, 1999.
Seven Tunes Heard in China was commissioned by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra for Yo-Yo Ma, October 1995.

DSD Recording

Produced by Steven Epstein

SACD ISO

mqs.link_YYMaSl1999SACDIS.part1.rar
mqs.link_YYMaSl1999SACDIS.part2.rar
mqs.link_YYMaSl1999SACDIS.part3.rar

FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

mqs.link_YYMaSl1999FLAC2488.part1.rar
mqs.link_YYMaSl1999FLAC2488.part2.rar