Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma i 2013.
Information
Født	Yo-Yo Ma 7. oktober 1955 (66 år) Paris
Oprindelse	Paris, Frankrig
Statsborger	Republikken Kina, Frankrig, USA
Sprog	Engelsk
Genre	Klassisk
Beskæftigelse	Cellist, musikpædagog, komponist, musiker
Medlem af	Committee of 100, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Pladeselskab	Columbia Records, RCA Records, Sony Classical
Instrumenter
Cello
Eksterne henvisninger
yo-yoma.com
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Yo-Yo Ma (født 7. oktober 1955 i Paris) er en fransk-født amerikansk-kinesisk cellist. Han fik sin skolegang i New York City, og blev betragtet som et vidunderbarn. Har har udgivet over 90 musikalbum, og modtaget 18 Grammy Awards.

Historie

Han blev født i Paris af kinesiske forældre med musikalsk baggrund. Da Ma var fem år gammel flyttede familien til New York City.

Siden en ung alder har Yo-Yo Ma spillet cello med de største klassiske orkestre i verden, ligesom han har modtaget en lang række internationale priser og anerkendelser for sit arbejde. Blandt andet fik han Polar Music Prize i 2012.^[1]

Diskografi

1978:

• Finzi: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 40 (reissued 2007)

1979:

• Robert White Sings Beethoven

1980:

• Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals | Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, OP. 35 | Polonaise, OP. 77
• Saint-Saëns and Lalo: Cello Concertos
• Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C Major, Op.56

1981:

• Haydn: Cello Concertos
• Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 1 (med Emanuel Ax)

1982:

• Kreisler, Paganini

1983:

• Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord
• Bach: The Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites
• Shostakovich and Kabalevsky: Cello Concertos
• Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op.5, Nos.1 & 2
• Kreisler, Paganini: Works

1984:

• Bolling: Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio
• Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 2 (med Emanuel Ax)
• Schubert: String Quintet
• Haydn: Three Favorite Concertos -- Cello, Violin and Trumpet Concertos
• Beethoven Sonatas, Volume 2, No. 3, Op. 69; No. 5 Op. 102, No. 2

1985:

• Japanese Melodies
• Elgar, Walton: Cello Concertos
• Mozart: Divertimento, K.563
• Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano (med Emanuel Ax)
• Schubert: Quintet in C Major

1986:

• Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto
• Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 3 (med Emanuel Ax)
• Dvořák: Cello Concerto
• Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.4; Variations

1987:

• Boccherini: Concerto | J.C. Bach: Sinfonia Concertante and Grand Overture
• Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor | Schubert: String Quartet No.15
• Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas

1988:

• Schumann: Cello Concerto | Fantasiestucke, Op. 73 | Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 | Funf Stucke im Volkston, Op. 102 (med Emanuel Ax)
• Dvořák: Piano Trios (med Emanuel Ax and Young Uck Kim)
• Brahms: Double Concerto; Piano Quartet (tracks 1-3, med Chicago Symphony Orchestra med Claudio Abbado, conductor; tracks 4-7, med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo)
• Shostakovich: Piano Trio | Cello Sonata (med Emanuel Ax)

1989:

• Barber: Cello Concerto | Britten: Symphony for Cello & Orchestra
• Strauss and Britten: Cello Sonatas (med Emanuel Ax)
• Shostakovich: Quartet No.15 | Gubaidulina: Rejoice!
• Anything Goes: Stephane Grappelli & Yo-Yo Ma Play (Mostly) Cole Porter
• Great Cello Concertos: Dvořák, Elgar, Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Schumann
• The Japanese Album
• Portrait of Yo-Yo Ma
• Shostakovich: Symphony No.5; Cello Concerto

1990:

• Mozart: Serenade No. 10 | Sonata for Bassoon and Cello
• Brahms: The Piano Quartets (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo)
  • 2 CDs: Piano Quartet No.1, op. 25 and No. 3, op. 60; Piano Quartet No. 2, op. 26
• A Cocktail Party
• Strauss: Don Quixote; Die Liebe der Danae

1991:

• Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas (med Emanuel Ax)
• Tchaikovsky Gala in Leningrad
• Brahms: Double Concerto; Berg: Chamber Concerto
• Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No.1; Piano Concerto No.2; Violin Concerto No.3

1992:

• Hush (med Bobby McFerrin)
• Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante | Tchaikovsky: Variations
• Brahms: String Sextets | Theme and Variations for Piano
• Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano (med Emanuel Ax)
• Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony; Bacchanale; Marche Militaire; Carnaval des animaux; Danse Macabre

1993:

• Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht | String Trio
• Made in America
• Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood (VHS)
• Faure: Piano Quartets (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo)

1994:

• Immortal Beloved
• Chopin: Chamber Music (med Emanuel Ax (tracks 1-9), Pamela Frank (tracks 1-4), and Ewa Osinska (track 10))
• The New York Album
• Greatest Hits: Gershwin
• Greatest Hits: Tchaikovsky
• Beethoven, Schumann: Piano Quartets (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo)
• Dvořák in Prague: A Celebration

1995:

• Concertos from the New World
• Greatest Hits: Saint-Saëns
• Tackling the Monster: Marsalis on Practice (VHS)
• Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart: Clarinet Trios (med Emanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman)
• The Essential Yo-Yo Ma

1996:

• Premieres: Cello Concertos by Danielpour, Kirchner and Rouse
• Schubert and Boccherini String Quintets
• Lieberson: King Gesar | Corigliano: Phantasmagoria (med Emanuel Ax (all tracks), tracks 1-7: Omar Ebrahim, Peter Serkin, Andras Adorjan, Deborah Marshall, William Purvis, David Taylor, Stefan Huge, and Peter Lieberson)
• Appalachia Waltz
• Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione Sonata (med Emanuel Ax, Pamela Frank (tracks 1-5), Rebecca Young (tracks 1-5), Edgar Meyer (tracks 1-5), and Barbara Bonney (track 9))

1997:

• Soul of the Tango, musik af Astor Piazzolla
• Liberty!
• The Tango Lesson
• Seven Years in Tibet
• Symphony 1997
• Mozart: The Piano Quartets (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo)
• From Ordinary Things
• Goldschmidt: The Concertos

1998:

• John Tavener: The Protecting Veil
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold/ Schmidt: Music for Strings and Piano Left Hand
• Inspired by Bach: "Falling Down Stairs" -- Cello Suite No.3
• Inspired by Bach
• Inspired by Bach: "Struggle For Hope" -- Cello Suite No.5
• Inspired by Bach: "The Music Garden" -- Cello Suite No.1
• Inspired by Bach: "Sarabande" -- Cello Suite No.4
• Inspired by Bach: "The Sound of the Carceri" -- Cello Suite No.2
• Inspired by Bach: "Six Gestures" -- Cello Suite No.6

1999:

• John Williams Greatest Hits 1969–1999
• My First 79 Years
• Solo
• Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Cello Sonata Op.78
• Lulie the Iceberg
• Songs and Dances
• Franz Joseph Haydn
• Simply Baroque (med Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra)
• Dvořák: Piano Quartet No.2 | Brahms: Sonata for Piano and Cello in D major, op. 78 (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern (tracks 1-4), and Jaime Laredo (tracks 1-4))

2000:

• Inspired by Bach, Volume 2 (DVD)
• Inspired by Bach, Volume 3 (DVD)
• Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Inspired by Bach, Volume 1 (DVD)
• Corigliano: Phantasmagoria (The Fantasy Album)
• Simply Baroque II (med Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra)
• Appalachian Journey Live in Concert (VHS and DVD)
• Appalachian Journey (med Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor)
• Dvořák: Piano Quartet No.2, Sonatina in G, Romantic Pieces

2001:

• Classic Yo-Yo
• Classical Hits
• Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology

2002:

• Naqoyqatsi: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed by Philip Glass
• Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams
• Silk Road Ensemble: Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet
• Meyer and Bottesini Concertos (med Edgar Meyer (tracks 1-3): Concerto for Cello and Double Bass)

2003:

• Paris - La Belle Époque
• Master and Commander: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Obrigado Brazil

2004:

• The Dvořák Album
• Vivaldi's Cello
• Obrigado Brazil Live
• Silk Road Ensemble: Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon

2005:

• Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone, arranged and conducted by Ennio Morricone
• Memoirs of a Geisha (soundtrack) (med Itzhak Perlman) (komponeret og dirigeret af John Williams)

2007:

• Appassionato
• Dvořák in Prague: a Celebration (DVD)

2008:

• Silk Road Ensemble: New Impossibilities
• Songs of Joy & Peace

2009:

• "Cinema Paradiso" on Chris Botti in Boston
• 30 Years Outside the Box—Box set includes two bonus disks med various previously unreleased recordings

2010:

• Mendelssohn: Piano Trios and Songs without Words | Beethoven Ghost Piano Trio (med Emanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman (tracks 1-8), Pamela Frank (track 14))

2011:

• The Goat Rodeo Sessions (med Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile)

2015:

• Before this World (med James Taylor)
• Songs from the Arc of Life (med Kathryn Stott)

2016:

• Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble: Sing Me Home

2018

• Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites^[2]

2020

• Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 (med Anne-Sophie Mutter and Daniel Barenboim)^[3]
• Not Our First Goat Rodeo (med Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile)

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

• Wikimedia Commons har flere filer relateret til Yo-Yo Ma
• Yo-Yo Mas officielle hjemmeside