Title: Yo-Yo Ma at his best
Product review: Yo-Yo Ma is certainly at his technical best, and he conveys these two 20th-century concertos with great understanding and feeling. The Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy flows nicely with Ma. The Shostakovich Concerto (1957) is technically impossible, it seems, but Ma pulls it off! This post-Stalin work is a statement to the horrors of that dictator's era, and the 2nd movement 'a capella' will take your breath away! The Kabalevsky Concerto is a very intriguing work by a little-known composer. Very nice.
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