馬友友30 Years Outside The Box（90CDs）

中文報刊有相關報導（2009-09-27聯合晚報 ）～

EMI本月9月全球同步發行Beatles歷年13張天王專輯，集成兩套盒裝，一是立體聲母帶重製，一是單音原音發行，推出數日，在歐洲賣出超過250萬張，使Beatls解散將近40年後重登搖滾排行榜王座，並且成為今年熱門音樂企業頭號盛事。

紐約時報27日報導，古典音樂界不甘示弱，將在10月27日推出一個全球名流品牌打對台：馬友友。Sony的盒裝馬友友將成為2009年古典音樂的壓軸發行。

盒裝古典音樂近年屢見不鮮，德國留聲機去年打出37CD的卡拉揚，今年紀念他111歲冥誕，再推一套55張。Brilliant發行170張CD的全套莫札特和155張CD的全套巴哈。海頓今年逝世二百年，Naxos正在推出他所有絃樂四重奏、交響曲、鋼琴奏鳴曲、協奏曲和彌撒曲。

盒裝馬友友只有90張CD，但另有值得注意之處。首先，54歲的馬友友仍然活躍全球，遠遠用不著身後添花。盒子裡大部分作品是母帶重製，但許多CD在市面上還很容易買到。另外，盒子包裝和馬友友平易近人的陽光作風十分不同，華貴氣派，絨布襯裡，附一本312頁的精裝小書，封面照片則出自當今美國肖像攝影界第一把交椅Annie Leibovitz的鏡頭。

最搶眼的是定價：789美元 (台幣2萬5000元)。Beatles的兩盒都定在二百美元上下(台幣6480元)。

馬友友打包票是目前全球名氣數一數二的演奏家，重大公共場合，像歐巴馬就職、奧斯卡頒獎典禮、愛德華甘迺迪喪禮、世界經濟論壇，千挑萬選之後，都指定請他演出。他天生魅力，音樂修養過人，琴藝超群，無人不愛。

不過，789美元，有沒有問題？Sony副總裁米勒說：「我認為俗擱大碗。」每張CD不到十美元，而且市場似乎看他同感。海外的合作公司已買走3500套，發行時間是10月27日，但有興趣者可以透過馬友友網站yoyoma.com預訂，搶鮮的頭二百套可以獲得一紙認證，另送一張頂級馬友友簽名照，米勒形容這是「一生只此一次的機會」。米勒並表示，企業高層的反應相當不錯，認為是送禮的上選。

米勒說，盒裝不是馬友友的主意，是他的，用意是突顯馬友友和Sony的30年合作。Sony是不是指望賺一筆? 米勒說，這是奇怪的問題，「我們只想向一位獨特的演奏家致敬」。

以下文字轉載自馬友友官方網站～

Yo-Yo Ma: 30 Years Outside the Box, a deluxe limited-numbered box set of Yo-Yo Ma’s recorded legacy, celebrates his 30th Anniversary recording with Sony Music. Created with the full participation of Yo-Yo Ma, 30 Years Outside the Box is the definitive collection of this iconic artist in a presentation as beautiful and timeless as the music itself.

30 Years Outside The Box will comprise 88 discs of original album releases (entirely remastered with DSD technology) and an additional two discs of bonus material.

◆All discs will be presented in original jacket-style minijackets housed in a beautifully designed, velvet-lined box.

◆The box set includes a large hard-bound book with archival photos, essays, full track lists, original liner notes, and credits. The book also contains a foreword by longtime Yo-Yo Ma collaborator and Grammyy®-winning pianist Emanuel Ax.

◆The book’s main essay, by noted music journalist Richard Dyer, focuses on Mr. Ma’s multifaceted, boundary-defying career and his place as a cultural figure known throughout the world.

◆There will also be congratulatory messages from many of Yo-Yo Ma’s friends and colleagues and short bios of the guest artists.

Celebrating his 30th anniversary with Sony Classical and Sony Masterworks, Yo-Yo Ma has recorded over 75 albums (including 15 Grammy® Award winners) reflecting his wide-ranging interests. He has made several successful recordings that defy categorization, among them Hush with Bobby McFerrin, Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey with Mark O’Connor and Edgar Meyer and two Grammy®-winning tributes to the music of Brazil, Obrigado Brazil and Obrigado Brazil - Live in Concert. Yo-Yo Ma’s most recent recordings include Paris: La Belle Époque, with pianist Kathryn Stott, Appassionato, which contains some of the world’s most romantic music and New Impossibilities, a live album recorded with the Silk Road Ensemble and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; he also appears on John Williams’s soundtrack for Rob Marshall’s film Memoirs of a Geisha. Across this full range of releases, Yo-Yo Ma remains one of the best-selling recording artists in the classical field.

90張CD清單如下：
01 Robert White Sings Beethoven

02 Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, Op. 35 Polonaise, Op. 77
03 Saint-Saëns and Lalo: Cello Concertos

04 Haydn: Cello Concertos
05 Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 1

06 Kreisler • Paganini
07 Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord

08 Bach: The Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites
09 Bach: The Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites

10 Shostakovich and Kabalevsky: Cello Concertos
11 Bolling: Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio

12 Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 2
13 Schubert: String Quintet

14 Japanese Melodies
15 Elgar and Walton: Cello Concertos

16 Mozart: Divertimento, K. 563
17 Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano

18 Strauss: Don Quixote Schoenberg: Concerto
19 Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 3

20 Dvořák: Cello Concerto
21 Boccherini: Concerto J. C. Bach: Sinfonia Concertante and Grand Overture

22 Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor Schubert: String Quartet No. 15
23 Schumann: Cello Concerto Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 • Adagio and Allegro • Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102

24 Dvořák: Piano Trios
25 Brahms: Double Concerto • Piano Quartet

26 Shostakovich: Piano Trio • Cello Sonata
27 Barber and Britten: Cello Concertos

28 Strauss and Britten: Cello Sonatas
29 Shostakovich: Quartet No. 15Gubaidulina: Rejoice!

30 Anything Goes: Stéphane Grappelli and Yo-Yo Ma Play (Mostly) Cole Porter
31 Mozart: Serenade No. 10, “Gran Partita” • Sonata for Bassoon and Cello

32 Brahms: The Piano Quartets
33 Brahms: The Piano Quartets

34 Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas
35 Tchaikovsky Gala in Leningrad

36 Hush
37 Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante • Tchaikovsky: Variations

38 Brahms: String Sextets
39 Brahms: String Sextets

40 Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
41 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht • String Trio

42 Fauré: Piano Quartets
43 Made in America

44 Dvořák in Prague
45 Beethoven and Schumann: Piano Quartets

46 Chopin: Piano Trio • Polonaise brillante • Cello Sonata
47 The New York Album

48 Immortal Beloved
49 Brahms, Beethoven, and Mozart: Clarinet Trios

50 Dvořák and Herbert: Concertos from the New World
51 Schubert: “Trout” Quintet • “Arpeggione” Sonata

52 Goldenthal Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio
53 Appalachia Waltz

54 Lieberson: King Gesar
55 Schubert and Boccherini: String Quintets

56 Yo-Yo Ma: Premieres
57 Mozart: The Piano Quartets

58 From Ordinary Things
59 Tan Dun: Symphony 1997

60 Seven Years in Tibet Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
61 Mark O’Connor: Liberty!

62 Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla
63 The Cello Suites – Inspired by Bach

64 The Cello Suites – Inspired by Bach
65 Korngold and Schmidt: Music for Strings and Piano Left Hand

66 Tavener: The Protecting Veil
67 Simply Baroque

68 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 • Cello Sonata
69 Yo-Yo Ma: Solo

70 Appalachian Journey
71 Dvořák: Piano Quartet, Op. 87 Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 75 Sonatina in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 100

72 Simply Baroque II
73 John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria

74 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
75 Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams

76 Silk Road Journeys When Strangers Meet
77 Meyer and Bottesini: Concertos
78 Naqoyatsi Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
79 Paris: La Belle Époque
80 Obrigado Brazil
81 Obrigado Brazil: Live
82 Vivaldi’s Cello
83 Isaac Stern Schubert • Brahms • Bach • Mozart
84 Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
85 Silk Road Journeys Beyond the Horizon
86 Memoirs of a Geisha Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
87 New Impossibilities
88 Yo-Yo Ma and Friends Songs of Joy and Peace
89 The Bonus Disc 1
90 The Bonus Disc 2