Yo Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone Music Cd

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Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone      List Price : $18.97 USD        Your Price : $13.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2004-09-28      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (68 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Yo Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone      Beautiful!      Rating:      This is just beautiful music--very melodious and evocative. Yo-Yo Ma is a consummate musician. Wonderful compositions like Morricone's in his hands is a delight to the ears and emotions. I highly recommend this CD.     Customer Reviews for Yo Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone Cd      A new haunting sound to Ennio Morricone      Rating:      The layering of instruments on this CD is quite noticeable. Yo-yo ma cello gives Ennio's scores a painfully haunting sound but still beautiful. I love scores and but none has made such a moving impression on me quite as this CD did. If you enjoy this CD, you should try also Itzhak Perlman's version of The Love theme from Cinema Paradiso and Schindler's List theme (of John WIlliams). Editorial Reviews for Yo Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Ennio Morricone is well-known to moviegoers. His soundtracks for The Mission, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Cinema Paradiso, and others are invariably warmly melodic and superbly suited to the films they grace. They not only add atmosphere; they help tell the story. For this CD Morricone has created new orchestrations for many of his scores, adding a solo cello part for the indefatigable Yo-Yo Ma, whose musical curiosity seems to be endless. Outside the films, these pieces tend to be lovely melodies, mostly pretty sentimental stuff, and, in the best way, gorgeous aural wallpaper. The most moving are the two selections from The Mission, but fans of Morricone's music will find plenty to enjoy here. Ma's playing, as always, is exquisite---warm, deeply felt (given the circumstances), and entirely idiomatic within the context. Perhaps not quite for the classical music lover, but an affectionate reworking of music by an important film composer. --Robert Levine