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Obrigado Brazil
: :This enchanting, flavorful CD finds the ever curious Yo-Yo Ma traveling to South America, and Brazil in particular. The music varies from classical to samba to bossa nova; the combinations range from guitar, flute, and cello to female voice (the remarkable Rosa Passos), cello, guitar, percussion, piano, and bass; to simple cello and piano; to cello and two guitars. The overriding element is rhythm; each selection has a beat which is both infectious and sensual, but the contexts are splendidly varied. 'Dansa brasileira' has a ...
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Bach: Violin Concertos
from: EMI Classics
: :This enchanting, flavorful CD finds the ever curious Yo-Yo Ma traveling to South America, and Brazil in particular. The music varies from classical to samba to bossa nova; the combinations range from guitar, flute, and cello to female voice (the remarkable Rosa Passos), cello, guitar, percussion, piano, and bass; to simple cello and piano; to cello and two guitars. The overriding element is rhythm; each selection has a beat which is both infectious and sensual, but the contexts are splendidly varied. 'Dansa brasileira' has a ...
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Appalachia Waltz / Ma, Meyer, O'Connor
from: Sony
: :This enchanting, flavorful CD finds the ever curious Yo-Yo Ma traveling to South America, and Brazil in particular. The music varies from classical to samba to bossa nova; the combinations range from guitar, flute, and cello to female voice (the remarkable Rosa Passos), cello, guitar, percussion, piano, and bass; to simple cello and piano; to cello and two guitars. The overriding element is rhythm; each selection has a beat which is both infectious and sensual, but the contexts are splendidly varied. 'Dansa brasileira' has a ...
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The Mozart Effect - Music for Babies - Playtime to Sleepytime
from: Children's Group
: :The Mozart Effect - Music For Babies - Playtime To Sleepytime Cd
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Mozart: Piano Sonatas
from: Deutsche Grammophon
: :The Mozart Effect - Music For Babies - Playtime To Sleepytime Cd
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Baby Einstein: Traveling Melodies
from: Buena Vista
: :The Mozart Effect - Music For Babies - Playtime To Sleepytime Cd
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Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: Canon in D
from: RCA
: :The Mozart Effect - Music For Babies - Playtime To Sleepytime Cd
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Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst and Other Choral Works
: : Eric Whitacre is one of the leading lights of the choral music scene. The 14 text-centered, emotionally-charged works on this well-filled disc suggest why. Outwardly conservative, his music is full of fascinating harmonic explorations, dynamic shifts, and rhythmic nuances that make them fun to sing and absorbing to listen to. The texts are drawn from poets of the stature of e.e. cummings, Octavio Paz, Garcia Lorca, and Emily Dickinson, among others. And they pack emotional power, as in When David Heard, whose Biblical text ...
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Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla
from: Sony
: essential recording:Yo-Yo Ma might seem like an unlikely protagonist for the tango, but this intrepid musical explorer has taken his task seriously, collaborating with experienced tango musicians. Ma even participates in a posthumous collaboration with one 1987 Piazzolla recording. Furthermore, while he's obviously the headliner here, he doesn't dominate the arrangements nearly as much as he does the billing and photography of the disc. While the result isn't your essential Piazzolla album (that would have to include more of the composer's own playing), it's ...
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Beethoven's Wig, Vol. 2: More Sing-Along Symphonies
from: Rounder / Umgd
: :From a pure-pleasure standpoint, the first Beethoven's Wig was nothing to flip over, and the second disc in the series follows suit. However, that is not to say that this is not a valuable and possibly ingenious record. Those unfamiliar with the premise will quickly get the picture: Producer/writer/lead singer/chief clever guy Richard Perlmutter gathers a bundle of important classical works (Paganini's 'Violin Concerto #2,' Strauss' 'Blue Danube Waltz') and makes up silly, catchy lyrics to lay over them, informing the listener about the piece ...
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