Songs from the Arc of Life / Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott

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A life is an arc of experience, from beginning to end and all the notes in between. The new album, Songs from the Arc of Life, is a musical journey shared by Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott, and a window into our universal adventure through life and time.

Longtime friends, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, create a unique classical music experience with their new recording, Songs from the Arc of Life. The album includes pieces they have frequently performed but never recorded, as well as a handful of discoveries. Songs from the Arc of Life begins and ends with two, much-beloved settings of the traditional “Ave Maria,” opening with the soaring, radiant Bach/Gounod arrangement and closing with Schubert’s more serene, contemplative version. In between is a remarkable spectrum of music that includes such enduring favorites as Brahms’ “Lullaby,” Dvora?k’s “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” Elgar’s “Salut d’amour,” Gade’s “Tango Jalousie” and Saint-Sae?ns’ “The Swan,” as well as richly evocative works by Debussy, Delius, Faure?, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Messiaen, Schumann, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. Ma and Stott also include a haunting piece by the contemporary composer Giovanni Sollima, a friend and colleague of both artists.


Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: 88875103162


  • UPC: 888751031623


  • Label: Sony Masterworks


  • Composer: Antonín Dvořák, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Gounod, Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Franz Schubert, Frederick Delius, Fritz Kreisler, Gabriel Fauré, George Gershwin, Giovanni Sollima, Jacob Gade, Jean Sibelius, Johannes Brahms, Olivier Messiaen, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Robert Schumann, Sir Edward Elgar


  • Performer: Kathryn Stott, Yo-Yo Ma