# Yo-Yo Ma discography

Discography for the cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

## Discography

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, András Adorján, 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, 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
* 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 (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
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
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
* Songs of Joy & Peace
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
* Concertos for the New World
* Appalachian Journey
* Vivaldi's Cello
* Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
* Saint-Saëns, Lalo: Cello Concertos
2013:
* Yo-Yo Ma Plays Cello Masterworks
2014:
* Obrigado Brazil
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
* Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Silent Woods; Rondo
* Dvorák In Prague: A Celebration
* Seven Years in Tibet
* Simply Baroque II
* Yo-Yo Ma Plays The Music of John Williams
* Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione Sonata; Die Forelle
* Schubert, Boccherini: String Quintets
* Solo
* Paris - La Belle Époque
* Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
* Yo-Yo Ma - The Classical Cello Collection
2016:
* Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble: Sing Me Home
* Schumann: Cello Concerto; Adagio & Allegro; Fantasiestücke
2017:
* Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach
* Brigitte Klassik zum Genießen: Yo-Yo Ma
2018
* Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites
* Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach & Boccherini
* Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites
* Salonen Cello Concerto
2019:
* Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma - A Celebration
2020:
* Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 (with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Daniel Barenboim)
* Not Our First Goat Rodeo (with Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile)
* Songs of Comfort and Hope
2021:
* Hope Amid Tears - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas
2022:
* Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 (with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos)
* Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” and Op. 1, No. 3 (with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos)
2024:
* Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 "Archduke" (with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos)