Yo-Yo Ma / Kathryn Stott
Elbphilharmonie Opening Festival
Side by side with Leonard Berstein, Yo-Yo Ma made his first US television appearance at the age of eight. That was 50 years ago; since then the Chinese-American cellist has become the world’s most important soloist in his field.
As one would expect, Ma tells his chequered artistic life story in the form of a music, »Arc of Life«, which is also available on CD. Popular classics like Gounad’s arrangement of Bach’s »Ave Maria« – the first piece of music that Yo-Yo Ma played on the cello at the age of five – and the zippy »Tango Jalousie«, to major sonatas by Shostakovich and Franck can be enjoyed. Ma is accompanied by his closest artistic friend and piano partner of many years, Kathryn Stott.
Performers
Yo-Yo Ma violoncello
Kathryn Stott piano
Programme
Suite »Arc of Life«:
Johann Sebastian Bach / Charles Gounod
Meditation / Ave Maria BWV 846 / Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier
Jean Sibelius
Var det en dröm? / War es ein Traum? op. 37/4 / Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier
Jakob Gade
Tango Jalousie
Claude Debussy
Beau soir / Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier
Franz Schubert
Ellens Gesang III D 839 »Ave Maria« / Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier d-Moll op. 40
– Interval –
Giovanni Sollima
Il bell’Antonio (Tema III)
César Franck
Sonate A-Dur FWV 8 (Fassung für Violoncello und Klavier)
Encore:
George Gershwin
aus: Drei Préludes
Edward Elgar
Salut d’amour op. 12
Cesar Camargo Mariano
Cristal
Camille Saint-Saëns
Le cygne (The Swan) / from: Le carnaval des animaux (The Carnival of the Animals)