Songs of Comfort & Hope
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Label: Sony
Cat No: 19439822372
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 11th December 2020
Contents
Works
The Wizard of OzSong without Words in D major for cello and piano, op.109
We'll meet again (arr. Jorge Calandrelli)
Gracias a la vida (arr. Jorge Calandrelli)
Les Chemins de l'amour
Songs (12), op.21
Moscow Nights (arr. Stephen Hough)
Amazing Grace (arr. Graham Fitkin)
Scarborough Fair (arr. Stephen Hough)
Shenandoah (arr. Caroline Shaw)
The Last Rose of Summer (arr. Benjamin Britten)
Thula Baba (Hush My Baby) (arr. Roderick Williams)
Rain Falling from the Roof
Artists
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)Kathryn Stott (piano)
Works
The Wizard of OzSong without Words in D major for cello and piano, op.109
We'll meet again (arr. Jorge Calandrelli)
Gracias a la vida (arr. Jorge Calandrelli)
Les Chemins de l'amour
Songs (12), op.21
Moscow Nights (arr. Stephen Hough)
Amazing Grace (arr. Graham Fitkin)
Scarborough Fair (arr. Stephen Hough)
Shenandoah (arr. Caroline Shaw)
The Last Rose of Summer (arr. Benjamin Britten)
Thula Baba (Hush My Baby) (arr. Roderick Williams)
Rain Falling from the Roof
Artists
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)Kathryn Stott (piano)
About
Ma and Kathryn Stott mark the next chapter in the project with this new album, offering consolation and connection in the face of fear and isolation. The album includes 21 new recordings, which span modern arrangements of traditional folk tunes, canonical pop songs, jazz standards, and mainstays from the western classical repertoire. “Songs are little time capsules of emotions: they can contain long-lost dreams and desires, and feelings of great spirit, optimism, and unity”, Ma and Stott write of Songs of Comfort & Hope.
Among the new takes on old favourites are Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s artful and eloquently arranged Shenandoah; Australian composer Harry Sdraulig’s Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda; pianist Stephen Hough’s lush arrangement of Scarborough Fair, and two-time Academy Award-nominated icon Jorge Calandrelli’s re-imagining of a pair of songbook treasures: We’ll Meet Again by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles, and Violeta Parra’s Gracias a la Vida.
Ma and Stott’s recording partnership began in 1985, and includes Soul of the Tango and Obrigado Brazil, each of which garnered a Grammy Award for “Best Classical Crossover Album”. Most recently, in 2015, they released the critically acclaimed Songs from the Arc of Life, of which NPR wrote, “Over those many years, they’ve developed a wonderfully warm and mutually responsive musical partnership that has blossomed in performances that are both generous and incisive.”
Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott share the warmth of decades of music making again with Songs of Comfort & Hope, offering audiences new paths into treasured musical memories and a few notes of hope for a better future.
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