Yo-Yo Ma

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Yo-Yo Ma is a world-famous Chinese-American cellist. He is considered one of the best cellists in the world and has over 50 albums.

He was born to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age 4 and soon came with his family to New York, where he spent most of his formative years. Later, his principal teacher was Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School. He sought out a traditional liberal arts education to expand upon his conservatory training, graduating from Harvard University in 1976.

Yo-Yo Ma has been called “the most omnivorous of all cellists” by critics and indeed possesses a far more eclectic repertoire than typical for a classical player. He has performed and recorded Baroque pieces on period instruments, American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the Argentinian tangos of Astor Piazzolla, Brazilian music, the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Philip Glass’s minimalist score of Naqoyqatsi in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire. His latest CD is a collaboration with other musicians for the Memoirs of a Geisha soundtrack.

Nowadays, his main performance instrument is a very fine Montagnana cello from Venice, made in 1733. He also plays regurlarly a Davidoff Stradivarius from 1712.

1	Libertango full track	290
2	Doce de Coco full track	85
3	Cristal full track	75
4	A Lenda do Caboclo	62
5	The Four Seasons-Largo From Winter Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297	58
6	Cello Suite No.1, 1. Prelude	56
7	Dansa Brasileira	52
7	Menino	52
9	Dansa negra	50
10	Bodas de Prata & Quatro Cantos	44
10	Apelo	44
12	Concerto In C Minor For Cello, RV 401-Allegro Ma Non Molto	41
12	1 X 0 (Um a Zero)	41
12	Carinhoso	41
15	Chega de Saudade	39

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Essential Yo-Yo Ma
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homasi wrote:
last month

Wow, great singer, I tried all his albums here http://mp3aim.com/Yo-Yo_Ma_music/mp3/75426652/

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TinyTwin wrote:
May 2008

His version of Morricones 'Ecstasy of Gold' is brilliant.

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agulk wrote:
April 2008

<33.

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Eclectic-G wrote:
April 2008

Boutros Boutros-Ghali!

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cloonytoon wrote:
April 2008

simply brilliant

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BananaNoodle wrote:
March 2008

Legend

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diegochersicola wrote:
January 2008

http://remitur.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/scott-walker-30-century-man/

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Faeerie wrote:
January 2008

<3

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Amina172 wrote:
October 2007

http://www.last.fm/group/Schumann/

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October 2007

http://www.last.fm/group/Bobby+McFerrin

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chisaikame wrote:
September 2007

w00t made it as a top listener x3

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XmentalXpunkX wrote:
August 2007

cello rocks! lol signed, A young cellist

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Aludin wrote:
August 2007

cello suites with stradivarius make my anus quiver

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Mokami wrote:
August 2007

Sonata 1 from Gabriel Fauré makes me shiver

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hagane_no wrote:
July 2007

capo

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felipe8a wrote:
June 2007

Libertango con Piazzola is awesome. He'll be here in Bogotá next thursday!!!!!

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bToFRia wrote:
May 2007

have u heard him with piazzolla?

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bToFRia wrote:
May 2007

sublime, yo-yo fever

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pluiefrigide wrote:
May 2007

beautiful cello music.

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2Serenity wrote:
March 2007

Yo Yo Ma is one of my all time classical performers! He can command the cello like no other!

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