Strauss and Britten Cello Sonatas by Yo-Yo Ma

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"Robert Een's colorful, intuitive compsitions are a mesmerizing intertwining of voice and cello." Kristin Faurest, Louisville Courier-Journal. This album features 12 new compositions for voice and cello by Robert Een - singing and playing simultaneously - this is music of beauty, heart and humor. Inspired by everything from real and imagined landscapes to devotional music and Italian aria, Robert Een has written and recorded songs with such titles as "Cars on Mars", "Il Mio Pomodoro", and "Sea of Fire". Dating from a trip to Tibet and northwest China in 1985, Een has been a noted practitioner of overtone singing, and this recording includes two stellar examples, "The Awakener" and "Driving Up Country".

UK pressing of this two CD collection from the Blues legend. This collection lives up to its title, containing every known recording by Johnson, including alternate takes. Though the 41 tracks in this double disc set were recorded in a span of only eight months (November 1936-June 1937), Johnson left behind a musical legacy that continues to influence and inspire. Features tracks like 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Love In Vain' and 'Hellhound On My Trail', which are now considered Blues standards. Camden.

Like other European composers of his generation, Miklós Rósza, born in Hungary in 1907, found political and creative sanctuary in Hollywood, where he wrote concert music and many notable film scores. These three works clearly show that he never lost his roots in his native folk music. The violin concerto, a lush, romantic piece, was written at the urging of Jascha Heifetz and is tailored to his and his instrument's strengths, with singing, soaring melodies, brilliant passage work, and a very effective cadenza. Later, Heifetz and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky asked Rósza to write a piece for them; the "Theme and Variations" is the slow movement of a longer work. It is beautifully written for both instruments; based on a Hungarian melody, the variations are wonderfully inventive and varied in mood, character, and expression. The Cello Concerto too is extremely difficult and virtuosic, often quite wild and aggressive, and full of contrasts. The orchestration is excellent throughout, but not too heavy. The performances could not be better: McDuffie and Harrell surmount all the formidable technical challenges easily, their tone shimmers and glows, and their heartfelt but always refined expressiveness brings out the best in these unjustly neglected works. —Edith Eisler

Robert Shaw, despite being a fine choral conductor, was often a pretty boring interpreter—like most choral conductors, in fact. However, there were times that he really put everything together, particularly in his many fine recordings for Telarc, and this is one of the best. Of course, it helps that the music itself is largely pretty subdued, but Shaw directs a performance of exemplary clarity and genuine nobility of utterance. Gorgeous recorded sound too. —David Hurwitz