Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites - Vinyl Edition - Sony: 19075854651 - 3 Vinyl Records

By now, Ma’s wings are fully grown. His capacity for soaring seems limitless, his ability to minutely alter dynamics and tempos at the least prompting and the joy of his lilting rhythms are inspirational.... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018 More…

Release Date: 14th Sep 2018
Catalogue No: 19075854651
Label: Sony

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Bach, J S: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012

Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

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World famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s third and final time recording the Bach Cello Suites – music that has inspired and fascinated him since childhood. The album signals the beginning of a two-year global Bach Journey for the Grammy®-winning cellist. Yo-Yo Ma has won 18 Grammy Awards® in the US and has sold over 7 million albums globally. On tour worldwide performing this repertoire (this includes a UK performance at the Barbican on 9 September 2018). This is the triple LP Vinyl format.

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Awards Issue 2018

By now, Ma’s wings are fully grown. His capacity for soaring seems limitless, his ability to minutely alter dynamics and tempos at the least prompting and the joy of his lilting rhythms are inspirational. I don’t think he has ever made a greater recording and his personal booklet notes help provide a conceptual setting for his playing.

17th August 2018

There’s an overwhelming sense of freedom to his playing here, both in terms of phrasing and even the basic sonorities themselves: the recording acoustic (closer and drier than that of its immediate forerunner) plays its part, but rather than consciously nurturing the tone with either hand Ma now simply allows the sound to blossom and decay as it will...These ‘Six Evolutions’, then, are essential listening for devotees of Ma’s older recordings as well as for anyone eager to experience Bach’s masterpiece in all their infinite variety in interpretations entirely devoid of ego.

17th August 2018

The most affecting, dramatic and humane interpretation of this divine music that I have heard...Time and again Ma enlivens the suites’ formal patterns with dazzlingly various textures and tones: husky, velvet, thrusting, singing…Instead of studiously tracking the music note for note, he’s living inside it and the results are incomparably thrilling...Perfect.

Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites - Vinyl Edition

3 Vinyl Records

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