Yo-Yo Ma

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.

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

2020
 Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 (med Anne-Sophie Mutter and Daniel Barenboim)
 Not Our First Goat Rodeo (med Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile)

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