Yo-Yo Ma is one of the great musical icons of our time. He is a true celebrity, and for all the right reasons. There is powerful honesty about him and the way he becomes the music he plays. In much the way Pavarotti embodied tenor singing in his day, Yo-YoMa is cello music in our time.

“Yo-Yo Ma did what he always does … played with a passion and intensity that few musicians in the world today can match.”

—The New York Times

Program:

Schubert
Sonata in a minor “Arpeggione," D. 821

Shostakovich
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40

Piazzolla
Le Grand Tango

Gismonti/Carneiro
Bodas de Prata &
Quatro Cantos

Franck
Sonata in A Major, M. 8