{"product_id":"beethoven-ma-ax-celebration-music-cd","title":"Beethoven \/ Ma \/ Ax - Celebration - Music CD","description":"\"It has been almost 50 years since I met Yo-Yo in the cafeteria at the Juilliard School... We became friends very quickly and a couple of years later played a benefit concert for a children's orchestra... I believe that in the life and career of a musician, luck plays an enormous role. The great piece of luck in my musical life has been my partnership with Yo-Yo. I learned most of the standard cello repertoire with him, but through our work together I also learned an enormous amount about all the other music that I was playing - and about sharing my love of music with audiences. Our approaches to learning a new work together started at opposite ends quite often. Yo-Yo always saw the big picture, he thought first about the emotional impact. I often started by asking why the third eighth note in bar 2 had a dot, and the fourth one didn't. Gradually, we met in the middle. For me, it was revelatory to work in his way, and I hope I did not annoy him too much with my persnickety questions! Our first recordings were the Beethoven Sonatas. We had played them in concert a number of times and thought that we could do a creditable performance on disc. I remember so well the thrill of seeing those LP covers; the pianist is now a white-haired old gentleman, and the cellist looks as young as ever! I am a great lover of Russian music, but never felt that I could play it properly. The albums of Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev are very special to me as they represent my attempts at music that I adore... When I look at the list of recordings that Yo-Yo and I have done together I feel enormously privileged to have shared in the journey of this unique artist. It was happenstance and great good fortune that gave me this gift, and I am grateful beyond measure for the time we have had together. I hope there are still some years left for me to keep learning from him, and that we continue to have fun exploring together.\" (Emanuel Ax)","brand":"Rock Band Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59474184372305,"sku":"SYNX19075929282.2","price":70.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/3914529_4779473b-d863-4190-b4e8-0c847971e01d.jpg?v=1778124957","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/products\/beethoven-ma-ax-celebration-music-cd","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}