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Longtime friends, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, create a unique classical music experience with their new recording, Songs from the Arc of Life. The album includes pieces they have frequently performed but never recorded, as well as a handful of discoveries. Songs from the Arc of Life begins and ends with two, much-beloved settings of the traditional Ave Maria, opening with the soaring, radiant Bach/Gounod arrangement and closing with Schubert s more serene, contemplative version. In between is a remarkable spectrum of music that includes such enduring favorites as Brahms Lullaby, Dvo ák s Songs My Mother Taught Me, Elgar s Salut d amour, Gade s Jalousie and Saint-Saëns The Swan, as well as richly evocative works by Debussy, Delius, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kriesler, Messaien, Schumann, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. Ma and Stott also include a haunting piece by the contemporary composer Giovanni Sollima, a friend and colleague of both artists.

The Deluxe Edition includes three bonus audio tracks plus an extended booklet.

1.Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
2.Brahms:Lullaby
3.Dvorák: Songs My Mother Taught Me
4.Fauré: Papillon
5.Gade: Tango Jalousie
6.Schumann: I. Vanitas vanitatum (from Five Pieces in the Popular Style)
7.Sibelius: Was It a Dream?
8.Fauré: Après un rêve
9.Elgar: Salut d'amour
10.Gershwin: Prelude No. 1
11.Delius: Romance for Cello and Piano
12.Kreisler: La Gitana
13.Sollima: Il bell'Antonio, Tema III
14.Saint-Saëns: The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)
15.Grieg: The Wounded Heart (from Elegiac Melodies)
16.Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6
17.Messiaen: Louange à l'éternité de Jésus (from Quartet for the End of Time)
18.Debussy: Beau Soir
19.Schubert: Ave Maria
20.Fauré: Romance, Op. 69 (Bonus Track)
21.Tchaikovsky: Melodie, Op. 42, No. 3 (Bonus Track)
22.Falla: Nana (from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas) (Bonus Track)