The big news here is the presence of The Butterfly Lovers, a work known to Western audiences in fragments from Olympic figure skating performances and the like, but not so often heard in full from a violinist of the caliber of Gil Shaham. It is sometimes paired with the notorious Yellow River Concerto in concert, but it is slighter, less extreme ...
XueFei Yang follows up her extraordinary EMI debut Romance de Amor with 40 Degrees North, named after the latitudinal line that runs through both Madrid and Beijing. It also runs through Columbus, OH, and divides the state of Kansas from that of Nebraska, but these places have not contributed to Yang's playing; she reveals in her liner notes that ...
Brahms' First Cello Sonata, Op. 38, has become as much a staple for the double bass repertoire as it is for cellists. Even in its unaltered state, the piece falls fairly nicely on the bass, so any "transcription" is typically minimally invasive, requiring very few alterations to the score. Such is the case with the transcription made by bassist ...
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