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DiscountDelight - Yo-Yo Ma - Simply Baroque II ~ Bach & Boccherini / ABO, Koopman
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List Price: $17.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646068120
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2000-08-15
Studio: Sony
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Summary: Concerts in a sailboat's cockpit
Comment: I discovered the first CD of these two when sailing in British Columbia this summer and played it over and over again when sipping wine under fine sunsets in the San Juan and Gulf Islands. There can be no better accompainment to the soft rocking of the boat and a fine wine. This second CD is as wonderful as the first. Pure lisening pleasure.
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Summary: no that hot
Comment: I usually love Ma, but I don't know why I am not so hot on both of the new super discks. Perhaps it is the miking. I'm surprised noone mentioned it. My CD player is a Meridian. I would be interested in hearing how this effects the pleasure of listening to CDs.
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Summary: Yo Yo Ma provides inspirational classical music.
Comment: Although I am not a musician or music expert, I can listen to this music many times and not get tired of it. It has the qualities embedded in it which I look for to keep me interested in its passages. Classical music such as this style should be mandatory listening in our school systems which are looking for things worth teaching. The pre-teens minds are being diluted with the current pop music. Our youth have little appreciation for the great things in life.
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Summary: Just a continuation on the terrific work from Yo-Yo and ABO
Comment: As I said, just a logical continuation from Yo-Yo's very good work developed with great love with ABO, absolutely a must-to-have these series I & II.
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Summary: Musical Playing
Comment: I think this CD was ok, there are much better musicians that people just don't know yet and aren't that famous. Yo-yo Ma is over reated and publicized too much. Just because he is the only 'American' musician that is 'well known'. His playing is boring and it's the same in all of his CD's, It doesn't sound baroque at all.I wouldn't buy his CD. Listen carefully and you will realize why he is just a waste of time. If a twelve year old can tell then I wonder why you 'grown ups' can't.
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Editorial Reviews:
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This is the sequel to Yo-Yo Ma's wildly successful Simply Baroque, released last year. Again joined by the excellent Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, with Ton Koopman conducting from the harpsichord, he plays with a baroque bow on his 1712 Stradivarius cello "reconfigured" as a baroque instrument with gut strings and no endpin and tuned a half-tone lower. This gives it a mellower, more subdued sound, though his tone, despite very sparing vibrato, retains its unique expressive warmth and purity. (In concert, he currently performs on his Montagnana cello and one made recently by the well-known American luthiers Moes & Moes.) The program again features two Boccherini concertos and a group of Bach transcriptions for cello and orchestra by Koopman, including the Aria from the Goldberg Variations. These are only intermittently successful and make great demands on the soloist. Ma, of course, meets the demands handily, soaring to stratospheric heights, blending into the orchestra, and weaving figurations around it. The Boccherini concertos are the core of the record, notably the famous B-flat, for which Ma and Koopman went back to the originals in search of a more authentic version than the familiar one (which was actually conflated later from several others by Grützmacher, a cellist and editor). Here, Ma has ample opportunity to display his virtuosity, his charm, and his pleasure in intimate give-and-take with the orchestra; one can almost see him smile. The result is pure delight. --Edith Eisler
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