Collaboration Album On Double LP!
The former Goat Rodeo Sessions collaborators, Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and Edgar
Meyer, focus on their collective admiration of Bach for this recording of Bach
Trios on vinyl LP.
Nonesuch Records releases an album of Bach works recorded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma,
mandolinist Chris Thile, and bassist Edgar Meyer, Bach Trios on 2LP vinyl. The
album comprises works by J.S. Bach originally written for keyboard instruments,
plus one sonata for viola da gamba. In 2011, Ma, Thile, and Meyer—along with
Stuart Duncan—collaborated on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, which won two Grammy
Awards.
Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer's first recording together was the 1996 album
Appalachia Waltz, which also featured fiddler Mark O'Connor; that album was
followed by Appalachian Journey, also with O'Connor, in 2000. Meyer and Thile
also began playing together nearly two decades ago, and first performed live as
a duo in 2003. They have made two duo albums, 2008's Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
and the Grammy–winning 2014 record Bass & Mandolin.
Thile then joined Meyer on Ma's 2008 holiday album, Songs of Joy and Peace,
before the trio reunited, along with Stuart Duncan, for The Goat Rodeo Sessions,
an album of original tunes drawing from the musicians' backgrounds in bluegrass,
classical, and American roots music. The Goat Rodeo Session debuted at number
twenty-three on the Billboard 200 chart and number one on the classical and
classical crossover charts, as well as number one on the bluegrass chart, where
it stayed for eleven weeks. The album was also critically praised, with the Los
Angeles Times calling it "haunting, invigorating, often breathtaking."
As Ma told Billboard at that time: "How often do you work with people who are
master virtuosos and also master improvisers and composers, who know at least
two musical traditions unbelievably well?" He continued, "It's just
extraordinary when you have people who can actually show on their instruments
what they're thinking at any moment, without a delay. As soon as you think it,
it gets transferred in your neuromusculature immediately into sound."
The New York Times said of Yo-Yo Ma, who is considered one of today's foremost
interpreters of Bach, "Other cellists hear Bach's suites the same as Mr. Ma, but
few if any have the technical means to transfer their imaginings so precisely
into sound."
Throughout a lifetime of performing and composing, Edgar Meyer has turned the
double bass into a modern virtuoso instrument that is equally at home in
classical music and in the American vernacular. In 1994, Meyer became the first
bassist to win the Avery Fisher Prize. He is also a recipient of the prestigious
MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award and five Grammy Awards. Meyer has found
devoted audiences through a vast range of projects, from his own double bass
concertos that he continues to perform regularly to recital collaborations with
Emanuel Ax and Amy Dorfman and performance and recording projects with artists
including Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Mark O'Connor, Sam
Bush, Jerry Douglas, Mike Marshall, and many others. The New Yorker calls him
"the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his
instrument."
MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile is the founding member of Punch Brothers, which a
Boston Globe reviewer recently called "the tightest, most impressive live band I
have ever seen." The group's four Nonesuch albums are Punch, Antifogmatic, Who's
Feeling Young Now?, and The Phosphorescent Blues. Thile's other Nonesuch
releases include a duet album of traditional bluegrass songs with guitarist
Michael Daves, Sleep with One Eye Open, and a prominent role in the T Bone
Burnett–produced soundtrack to the Coen brothers' film Inside Llewyn Davis. As a
soloist, he has released five albums—most recently the highly praised Bach:
Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1—and performed extensively as a duo with fellow
eminent mandolinist Mike Marshall. He spent 15 years as a member of the Grammy
Award–winning, multi-platinum selling band Nickel Creek, which reunited in 2014
for its highest-charting album to date, A Dotted Line (Nonesuch), and an
extensive tour. Thile has also collaborated with a pantheon of bluegrass
innovators including Béla Fleck, Dolly Parton, Jerry Douglas, and Sam Bush.
Features:
• Vinyl LP
• Double LP
• Limited time MP3 download
Musicians:
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Chris Thile, mandolin
Edgar Meyer, bass
Selections:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Side A:
1. Trio Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530
I. Vivace
II. Lento
III. Allegro
2. Prelude No. 19 in A Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 864
3. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
Side B:
1. Fugue No. 20 in A Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 889
2. Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639
3. Prelude and Fugue No. 18 in E minor, BWV 548
Side C:
1. Passepied from Keyboard Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829
2. Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650
3. Contrapunctus XIII from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080
4. Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721
Side D:
1. Sonata for Viola da Gamba No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 1029
I. Vivace
II. Adagio
III. Allegro
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