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A winning combination in the hands of virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile. Despite musical backgrounds that are poles apart, their previous collaborations [testify] to an exhilarating... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: 7559793920
Label: Nonesuch
Length: 60 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

July 2017

Chamber Choice
Opus Klassik Awards

2018

Winner - Chamber Music Recording (Music up to and including 17th/18th Century)

Bach, J S: Trio Sonata No. 6 in G major, BWV530

Work length12:18

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

I. Vivace (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Track length3:12

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II. Lento (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Track length6:08

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III. Allegro (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Track length2:58

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 19 in A Major, BWV 864 (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Work length1:36

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV645 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'

Work length4:42

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 889 (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Work length1:33

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV639 'Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'

Work length2:28

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Bach, J S: Prelude No. 18 in E Minor, BWV 548 (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Work length5:41

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Bach, J S: Fugue No. 18 in E Minor, BWV 548 (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Work length6:11

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Bach, J S: Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: VI. Passepied (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Work length2:04

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Bach, J S: Kommst du nun, Jesu vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650 (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Work length2:54

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Excerpt, Bach, J S: The Art of Fugue, BWV1080

Work length4:40

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Contrapunctus XIII a 3, "Rectus" (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Track length2:19

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Contrapunctus XIII a 3, "Inversus" (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Track length2:21

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Bach, J S: Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott, BWV 721 (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Work length4:10

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Chris Thile (guitar), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Bach, J S: Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor, BWV1029

Work length12:27

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Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

I. Vivace (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Track length4:54

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II. Adagio (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Track length4:18

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III. Allegro (Arr. for Mandolin, Cello, and Double Bass)

Track length3:15

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Nonesuch Records releases an album of Bach works recorded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and bassist Edgar Meyer, Bach Trios. The album comprises works by J.S. Bach written for keyboard instruments, plus one sonata for viola da gamba.

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.

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.’ Ma maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras worldwide and his recital and chamber music activities. His discography includes more than one hundred albums, eighteen of which have won Grammy Awards. Ma also serves as the Artistic Director of Silkroad, an organization he founded to promote cross-cultural performance and collaborations. More than eighty works have been commissioned specifically for the Silk Road Ensemble, which tours annually. Ma also serves as the Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Negaunee Music Institute and in 2016 was appointed Artistic Advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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July 2017

A winning combination in the hands of virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile. Despite musical backgrounds that are poles apart, their previous collaborations [testify] to an exhilarating meeting of minds…Thile and Meyer, with their backgrounds in bluegrass and American roots music, bring an appealing swing and spontaneity to the Bach…Ma draws a glorious palette of sounds from his cello, which sings and weeps and whispers

16th April 2017

It took a few tracks to get used to the clipped, precise sound of the mandolin, at times evoking lute or harpsichord, but by the time these three fine musicians tackled the Fugue No 20 in A minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, I was convinced.

Bach Trios

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