Yo-Yo Ma discography

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Discography for the cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Discography[edit]

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 (with 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 (with 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 (with Emanuel Ax)
• Schubert: Quintet in C Major

1986:

• Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto
• Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 3 (with 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 (with Emanuel Ax)
• Dvořák: Piano Trios (with Emanuel Ax and Young Uck Kim)
• Brahms: Double Concerto; Piano Quartet (tracks 1-3, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Claudio Abbado, conductor; tracks 4-7, with Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo)
• Shostakovich: Piano Trio | Cello Sonata (with Emanuel Ax)

1989:

• Barber: Cello Concerto | Britten: Symphony for Cello & Orchestra
• Strauss and Britten: Cello Sonatas (with 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 (with 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 (with 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 (with Bobby McFerrin)
• Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante | Tchaikovsky: Variations
• Brahms: String Sextets | Theme and Variations for Piano
• Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano (with 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 (with Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo)

1994:

• Immortal Beloved
• Chopin: Chamber Music (with Emanuel Ax (tracks 1-9), Pamela Frank (tracks 1-4), and Ewa Osinska (track 10))
• The New York Album (Albert, Bartok, Bloch)
• Greatest Hits: Gershwin
• Greatest Hits: Tchaikovsky
• Beethoven, Schumann: Piano Quartets (with 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 (with 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 (with 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 (with 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,^[1] music of Ástor Piazzolla
• Liberty!
• The Tango Lesson
• Seven Years in Tibet
• Symphony 1997
• Mozart: The Piano Quartets (with 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^[2]
• 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^[3] (with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra)
• Dvořák: Piano Quartet No.2 | Brahms: Sonata for Piano and Cello in D major, op. 78 (with 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 (with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra)
• Appalachian Journey Live in Concert (VHS and DVD)
• Appalachian Journey (with 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 (with 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^[4]

2005:

• Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone, arranged and conducted by Ennio Morricone
• Memoirs of a Geisha (soundtrack) (with Itzhak Perlman) (composed and conducted by John Williams)
• The Essential Yo-Yo Ma^[5]

2006:

• Strauss: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 6, TrV 115 - Britten: Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65

2007:

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

2008:

• Silk Road Ensemble: New Impossibilities
• Songs of Joy & Peace
• The Bach Cello Suites^[6]
• Songs of Joy & Peace^[7]

2009:

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

2010:

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

2011:

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

2012:

• Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites^[8]
• Concertos for the New World^[9]
• Appalachian Journey^[10]
• Vivaldi's Cello^[11]
• Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone^[12]
• Saint-Saëns, Lalo: Cello Concertos^[13]

2013:

• Yo-Yo Ma Plays Cello Masterworks^[14]

2014:

• Obrigado Brazil^[15]

2015:

• Before this World (with James Taylor)
• Songs from the Arc of Life (with Kathryn Stott)
• Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35 & Schoenberg: Concerto in D Major for Cello and Orchestra ^[16]
• Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Silent Woods; Rondo^[17]
• Dvorák In Prague: A Celebration ^[18]
• Seven Years in Tibet^[19]
• Simply Baroque II^[20]
• Yo-Yo Ma Plays The Music of John Williams^[21]
• Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione Sonata; Die Forelle^[22]
• Schubert, Boccherini: String Quintets^[23]
• Solo^[24]
• Paris - La Belle Époque^[25]
• Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals^[26]
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack^[27]
• Yo-Yo Ma - The Classical Cello Collection^[28]

2016:

• Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble: Sing Me Home
• Schumann: Cello Concerto; Adagio & Allegro; Fantasiestücke^[29]

2017:

• Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach^[30]
• Brigitte Klassik zum Genießen: Yo-Yo Ma^[31]

2018

• Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites^[32]
• Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach & Boccherini^[33]
• Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites^[34]
• Salonen Cello Concerto^[35]

2019:

• Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma - A Celebration^[36]

2020:

• Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Daniel Barenboim)^[37]
• Not Our First Goat Rodeo^[38] (with Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile)
• Songs of Comfort and Hope^[39]

2021:

• Hope Amid Tears - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas^[40]

2022:

• Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 (with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos)^[41][42]
• Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” and Op. 1, No. 3 (with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos)^[43][44]

2024:

• Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 "Archduke" (with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official site