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A master instrumentalist and chameleon of styles, Edgar Meyer has established himself as a vibrant performer and an innovative composer in a variety of arenas from classical to bluegrass. His virtuosity and musicianship inspired critics to call him, "quite simply, the best bassist alive."
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Photo: Merri Cyr
Watch Bela Fleck
& Edgar Meyer on A&E's "Breakfast with the Arts"
Appalachian
Journey has won a Grammy® Award!
Edgar Meyer composed
a new violin concerto for Hilary Hahn
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BÉLA FLECK, EDGAR MEYER RETEAM FOR NEW LIVE RECORDING MUSIC FOR TWO
IN STORES NOW FROM SONY CLASSICAL
CD Includes Bonus DVD Film
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You can also download this album NOW at iTunes!
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Banjoist Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer have been friends and colleagues for more than 20 years, and their new Sony Classical recording Music for Two distills the best live performances from their recent, critically acclaimed duo tour, featuring original pieces and arrangements the two created and developed during the tour. Packaged with a bonus DVD, Music for Two is in stores now!
Music for Two includes 16 new pieces, both original works written in collaboration and new arrangements of pieces by J.S. Bach, which the two wrote and polished during their first joint tour as a duo in 2001. With the release of Music for Two, Fleck and Meyer will hit the road again in May, with concerts throughout the U.S. including key dates in Washington, D.C. (May 20), in New York at Town Hall (May 22) and in San Francisco (May 30).
The bonus DVD, Obstinato: "Making Music for Two," features a 40-minute cinema verité film about the Fleck/Meyer partnership, shot on the road during the first leg of their tour by filmmaker Sascha Paladino, who is Fleck’s brother. Combining live performance and backstage footage with a close-up view of Fleck and Meyer composing together, rehearsing and refining their emerging repertoire, it is a rare and compelling documentary glimpse into a highly creative collaboration as it develops.
Watch the "Obstinatio Trailer" to find out more about this album & bonus DVD!
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Bottesini Concertos.
Meyer follows up his Perpetual
Motion (SK 89610) Grammy®s with two premiere concertos
(Double Concerto for Cello and Double Bass, Concerto in D for Double
Bass and Orchestra) and the music of Italian composer Giovanni Bottesini.
Yo-Yo
Ma and Joshua
Bell are featured guest soloists. One part American roots. One
part Mozart. An exquisite album. Also featuring Hugh Wolff and The
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
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A banjo virtuoso who has become a unique creative force in the worlds
of bluegrass, jazz, pop and rock, five-time Grammy® Award winner
Béla
Fleck makes his classical recording debut with Perpetual
Motion, his first recording for Sony Classical. In a series
of imaginative new arrangements of favorite short works by Bach,
Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Paganini, Scarlatti and Tchaikovsky,
Fleck is joined by a gallery of guest artists that includes guitarist
John Williams,
violinist Joshua
Bell, percussionist Evelyn Glennie on marimba and bassist Edgar
Meyer.
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