Traditions & Transformations-silk Road Chicago: Yo-yo Ma(Vc)Silk Road Ensemble Cso

TRADITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS:
SOUNDS OF SILK ROAD CHICAGO
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Silk Road Ensemble

“The Chicago Symphony Orchestra…comes closer to perfection than most orchestras...”
—The New York Times

“Everything the Chicago Symphony performs has a vivid, larger-than-life quality.”
—The Guardian (London)

“Chicago has a long history of being at the crossroads of the world,” Yo-Yo Ma said as he described the landmark yearlong collaboration known as Silk Road Chicago. This unique celebration—partnering Ma’s Silk Road Project with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and dozens of cultural institutions throughout the city from June 2006 through June 2007—was an unprecedented adventure in discovery that moved a city to learn and explore musical traditions and cross-cultural connections, inspired by both the legendary Silk Road trade route and an unending spirit of curiosity.

Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago on CSO Resound is an aural record of this remarkable journey, featuring a rich tapestry of musical works and passionate, virtuosic performances by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Silk Road Ensemble, pipa soloist Wu Man, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Alan Gilbert.


Bloch Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Solo Cello and Large Orchestra
Sharav Legend of Herlen
Harrison Pipa Concerto
Prokofiev Scythian Suite, Op. 20

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Silk Road Ensemble
Yo-Yo Ma cello
Wu Man pipa
Miguel Harth-Bedoya conductor
Alan Gilbert conductor