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Music For Two Live album by Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer Released 2004 Recorded October 2001 to September 2003 Genre Classical/Jazz Length 74:01 Label Sony Classical Producer Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer Béla Fleck chronology Perpetual Motion
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(2009)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1] Music for Two is an album of duets by Edgar Meyer and Béla Fleck created and recorded while touring to support Perpetual Motion and released by Sony Classical in 2004. Most of the pieces are original compositions by Meyer and Fleck, working alone and together. They also perform four of their arrangements of music by J. S. Bach, an arrangement of a sonata by Henry Eccles, and piece by Miles Davis.
The album includes a bonus DVD with a video documentary of the making of Music For Two from footage taken by Fleck's brother Sascha Paladino and concert footage.[2]
Contents
Track listing
- "Bug Tussle" (Béla Fleck)
- "Invention No. 10" BWV 796 (Johann Sebastian Bach - arr:Fleck, Edgar Meyer)
- "Pile-up" (Fleck, Meyer)
- Prelude No. 24 BWV 869 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
- "Solar" (Miles Davis)
- "Blue Spruce" (Fleck)
- "Canon" (Meyer)
- "The One I Left Behind" (Fleck)
- Menuett I-II from Partia No. 1 BWV 825 (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
- Prelude No. 2 BWV 847 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
- "Palmyra" (Fleck, Meyer)
- "The Lake Effect" (Fleck)
- Largo from Sonata (Henry Eccles - arr:Meyer)
- Allegro Vivace from Sonata (Eccles - arr:Meyer)
- "Wrong Number" (Fleck, Meyer)
- "Woolly Mammoth" (Fleck, Meyer)
- "Wishful Thinking" (Meyer)
Personnel
- Béla Fleck – banjo, guitar
- Edgar Meyer – double bass, piano
Chart
Chart Peak
positionU.S. Billboard Top Classical Crossover 3 References
Discography Crossing the Tracks (1979) · Natural Bridge (1982) · Deviation (1984) · Double Time (1984) · Inroads (1986) · Daybreak (1987) · Drive (1988) · Places (1988) · Tales from the Acoustic Planet (1995) · Tabula Rasā (1996) · The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 (1999) · Perpetual Motion (2001) · Music for Two (2004) · Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions (2009) · The Melody of Rhythm (2009)Related links Sam Bush · John Cowan · Pat Flynn · New Grass Revival · Edgar Meyer · Jerry Douglas · Future Man · Victor Wooten · Jeff Coffin · Howard Levy · Béla Fleck and Flecktones · Tony Rice · · David Grisman · · Darol Anger · Mark Schatz · Jimmy Gaudreau · Alison BrownInfluenced by Awards Categories:- Classical albums
- Instrumental duet albums
- 2004 live albums
- Béla Fleck albums
- Edgar Meyer albums
- 2004 video albums
- Documentary films about music and musicians
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