这可能算得上是绝无仅有的一件器乐作品了。虽然维瓦尔第和巴赫都曾写过四重协奏曲，但那都是同种乐器的，四把小提琴或者四架羽管键琴，再多也是一个味道。不同乐器的，我们通常只能听到二重协奏曲，还真不少，巴赫写过，莫扎特写过，布拉姆斯也写过，在20世纪有更多的作曲家写过。当然，莫扎特甚至还写过一首四种乐器(双簧管、单簧管、圆号和大骨)的协奏曲哩。但四种都是管乐器，角色差别不大。总之，像贝多芬这首三个独奏各有气象，汇成如此壮观的竞奏场面的协奏曲，你恐怕是再也找不出第二首了。尽管这曲子并不怎么动听，却毕竟是让你长了见识。
这个录音是《贝多芬 三重奏协奏曲》众多版本中最好的一版，CD圣经年年上版。

《马友友：巴哈灵感》马友友四岁就开始，两个小节、两个小节地练习巴哈无伴奏大提琴组曲，从那时起，他就不断从音乐中撷取其知性、感性与性灵方面的各种力量。史怀哲曾说，巴哈是一位“在音乐中放入绘画功能”的作曲者。他在这方面的启发，让马友友开始尝试探索巴哈音乐中所可能具有的视觉特质，也启发了他开始进行筹划 “Inspired By Bach巴哈灵感”的录制与拍摄工作。

过去几年，马友友能够与来自世界各地的艺术家们，一同探索巴哈这套组曲。这些艺术家不只是当代的人物，还有古代的艺术人物，像是十八世纪的建筑家乔望尼· 巴提斯塔·皮朗内西，就曾经与友友展开一段“想象”的对话。马友友和这些艺术家们平均都合作长达两年的时间。这些岁月里，他们各自都获得了艺术方面的激励和成长，彼此更是相交日深，终能在创意上结出更丰硕的果实。友友交给每一位艺术家一首组曲，再由他们从组曲中，找寻透过各自艺术表现其美感的可能。最后再将其结晶拍摄成六部音乐影片。

巴哈的音乐，一直是马友友生命中永远的感动………。



●前所未有的巴哈新视野
●威尼斯影展“音乐影像”光芒绽放，筹划制作耗时六年、录音横跨亚欧美三大洲、取材超越时空300年

曲目
01 第一号大提琴组曲：音乐花园 The Music Garden
想象用巴哈的音乐建造一个花园
02 第二号大提琴组曲：建筑的声音 The Sound Of The Carceri
Nike广告导演：法杭梭·杰厄德
03 第三号大提琴组曲：跳跃舞台 Falling Down Stairs
美国现代舞奇才马克·莫里斯
04 第四号大提琴组曲：萨拉邦德舞曲 Sarabande
电影：《情色酒店》艾腾·伊格言导演
05 第五号大提琴组曲：追寻希望 Struggle For Hope
日本歌舞伎大师阪东玉三郎
06 第六号大提琴组曲：六个姿态 Six Gestures
电影：《夜幕低垂》派崔西亚·罗兹玛导演

《马友友：爱上大提琴》收录了三首被改编成大提琴演奏的德沃夏克作品，由帕尔曼与马友友合作演出的《斯拉夫舞曲》与《幽默曲》改编成小提琴与大提琴合奏的弦乐版本，另一首《妈妈教我的歌》原为钢琴曲，小提琴版由克莱斯勒改编而成，但在大提琴温暖的琴音演奏下，却别有一种不同的优雅与特色。

本专辑为著名音乐家德沃夏克逝世百年的纪念专辑！马友友、帕尔曼等名家倾情演绎大师作品！

01-03 cello concerto in b minor,op.104
04 klid(silent woods)for cello and orchestra,op.68,no.5
05 slavonic dance in e minor,op.72,no.2
06 humoresque in g-flat major,op.101,no.7
07 “songs my mother taught me”from gypsy melodies,op.55,no.4

Celebrating the Silk Road: Chicago festival, this album unites the CSO with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pipa-player Wu Man, and the Silk Road Ensemble. Yo-Yo Ma is featured in Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo, and Wu Man plays a concerto for her instrument by American maverick Lou Harrison. Alan Gilbert conducts the CSO on its own in Prokofiev’s clangorous Scythian Suite.

Franz Schubert (Performer), Atar Arad (Performer), Cleveland Quartet (Artist), Paul Katz (Artist), Peter Salaff (Artist), Donald Weilerstein (Artist), Yo Yo Ma (Artist)

Inspired by Bach, a part of Sony Classical celebrates Bach series, presents contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach in collaboration with artists from different disciplines, in a set of six films, respectively.
Volume 2. Falling Down Stairs, directed by Barbara Willis Sweete, shows the cooperation between Ma and American contemporary dance choreographer Mark Morris and his Dance Group. Morris had never thought to choreograph a dance to a Bach suite (here the 3rd) and his goal was to inspire Ma as a musician with his choreography so the latter could profit musically from the cooperation. Sarabande is a drama movie by Atom Egoyan featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Egoyan's wife Arsinée Khanjian and Fame star Lori Singer.
Published as six VHS tapes, or three DVDs. The music was published as two CDs.
The films are:
Suite #1- The Music Garden, directed by Kevin McMahon. After explaining how the first Cello Suite always conjures up images of nature, Yo-Yo Ma recruits architect Julie Moir Messervy to help him try and design a garden based on the suite. The Music Garden is pitched to Boston City Hall, showing interest in the project for City Hall Plaza as a way to beautifully meet the demands for security. But the demands the film places on the completion of the project turn out to unreasonable for Boston and they pull out of the project. The city of Toronto expresses interest in the project once Boston steps out and over the remainder of the film work Yo-Yo and Julie to get the project to the point where actual construction of the Garden can begin.[1]
Suite #2- The Sound of the Carceri, directed by François Girard. Yo-Yo Ma brings the music of the Second Suite together with the etchings of the 18th century Italian architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi in this film. Working out the church that Piranesi built, Yo-Yo with his sound engineer constructs a reverberant rendition of the Second Suite to fit the computer designed three-dimensional version of Piranesi's Carceri d'invenzione (Prisons of the Imagination) that Girard constructs to have Yo-Yo play in over the course of the film. The film explores the connection that music and architecture share as architects and a music historian contribute to the discussion between the performances of the movements.
Suite #3- Falling Down Stairs, directed by Barbara Willis Sweete. Yo-Yo Ma collaborates with Mark Morris to create a dance for the Third Suite. The film opens with Morris expressing reservation about interpreting the work as choreographer, which he feels is less than the interpretation of a musical performer like Yo-Yo. Yo-Yo assure Morris that his interpretation is valid. Over the course the film Morris works with his troupe and then with Yo-Yo to create a dance. The title, as Morris explains, comes from a dream he had where he saw one of his dancers falling down a flight of stairs in time with the opening scale of the Suite.
Suite #4- Sarabande, directed by Atom Egoyan. Perhaps the most enigmatic of the films in the series, Sarabande, as Egoyan explains in his interview for the series, came out his meeting Yo-Yo to begin working on the film. Egoyan came to realize the relation that he and Yo-Yo had as listener and performer when Yo-Yo played for him. The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo as he travels to Canada to perform the Suites.
Suite #5- Struggle for Hope, directed by Niv Fichman. Yo-Yo travels to Japan to work with "his favorite Kabuki actor" Bandō Tamasaburō to choreograph a dance for the Fifth Suite. The process is not always easy as Bandō finds himself struggling to express emotion while keeping up with the tempo of the suite, especially in the Allemande movement. However, with guidance from Yo-Yo, the completed piece is an exquisite work that takes the viewer through a range of emotions from lamenting to denial and dreaming all through the movements and gestures of a master Kabuki actor and the playing of Yo-Yo Ma.
Suite #6- Six Gestures, directed by Patricia Rozema. Rozema and Yo-Yo explore the life of Bach when he wrote the Cello Suites with the help of ice dancers Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean as well as Tom McCamus, who plays Bach. Each of the movements of the Suite is equated to a gesture. The movements begin with McCamus as Bach narrating events in his life, setting the stage for Torvill and Dean to portray the particular gesture involved on ice. Over the course of the film we see Bach encounter joy at having the freedom to do "music for music's sake", question whether he is growing more isolated from the world-at-large, suffer the waning attentions of his patron, and grieve the loss of a wife.