Hush (Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin album)
Encyclopedia
Hush is an album by Bobby McFerrin
and cellist Yo-Yo Ma
.
Bobby McFerrin
Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
and cellist Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...
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Track listing
- "Grace" (McFerrinBobby McFerrinRobert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
) – 3:54 - "Double Mandolin Concerto in G, RV 532" Andante (VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
) – 4:03 - "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (Rimsky-Korsakov) – 1:08
- "Stars" (McFerrin) – 4:04
- "Hush Little Baby" (Trad.Traditional musicTraditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of the World music article...
) – 2:36 - "Vocalise," song for voice & piano, Op. 34/14 (Rachmaninov) – 6:26
- "Musette for keyboard in D Major (AMN II/22; doubtful), BWV Anh. 126" (BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
) – 4:12 - "Coyote" (McFerrin) – 2:52
- "Sonata for 2 cellos, No. 10 in G Allegro Prestissimo" (BarrièreJean-Baptiste BarrièreJean-Baptiste Barrière was a French cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris, at 40 years of age.-Musical career:Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of viol sonatas...
) – 2:36 - "Ave MariaAve Maria (Gounod)The Bach/Gounod Ave Maria is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin text Ave Maria.Written by French Romantic composer Charles Gounod in 1859, his Ave Maria consists of a melody superimposed over the Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, written by...
" (Gounod) – 2:37 - "Hoedown!" (McFerrin) – 5:38
- "Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068" ("AirOrchestral suites (Bach)The four Orchestral Suites or Ouvertures BWV 1066–1069 are a set of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, probably composed between 1725 and 1739 in Leipzig...
") (Bach) – 5:11 - "Good-bye" (McFerrin) – 1:11
Personnel
- Yo-Yo Ma – Cello, Liner Notes
- Bobby McFerrin – Arranger, Vocals, Producer, Performer, Liner Notes
Production
- Steven Epstein – Producer
- Carol Friedman – Cover Photo
- Linda Goldstein – Producer, Executive Producer
- Chris Tergesen – Engineer, Mixing Engineer
- Allen Weinberg – Cover Design