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buy now <\/a><\/p>\n $12.69<\/p>\n Nonesuch Records releases an album<\/a> of Bach works recorded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma<\/strong>, mandolinist Chris Thile<\/strong>, and bassist Edgar Meyer<\/strong>, Bach Trios<\/strong><\/em>, on April 7, 2017, with the two-LP vinyl edition due April 21. 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\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalong with Stuart Duncan\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcollaborated on The Goat Rodeo Sessions<\/em>, which won two Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer\u2019s first recording together was the 1996 album Appalachia Waltz<\/em>, which also featured fiddler Mark O\u2019Connor; that album was followed by Appalachian Journey<\/em>, also with O\u2019Connor, 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\u2019s Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile<\/em> and the Grammy\u00e2\u20ac\u201cwinning 2014 record Bass & Mandolin<\/em>.<\/p>\n Thile then joined Meyer on Ma\u2019s 2008 holiday album, Songs<\/a> of Joy and Peace<\/em>, before the trio reunited, along with Stuart Duncan, for The Goat Rodeo Sessions<\/em>, an album of original tunes drawing from the musicians\u2019 backgrounds in bluegrass, classical, and American roots music. The Goat Rodeo Sessions<\/em> debuted at number twenty<\/a>-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 <\/em>calling it \u201chaunting, invigorating, often breathtaking.\u201d<\/p>\n As Ma told Billboard <\/em>at that time: \u201cHow 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?\u201d He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s just extraordinary when you have people who can actually show on their instruments what they\u2019re thinking at any moment, without a delay. As soon as you think it, it gets transferred in your neuromusculature immediately into sound.\u201d<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/em> said of Yo-Yo Ma, who is considered one of today\u2019s foremost interpreters of Bach, \u201cOther cellists hear Bach\u2019s suites the same as Mr. Ma, but few if any have the technical means to transfer their imaginings so precisely into sound.\u201d 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\u2019s Negaunee Music Institute and in 2016 was appointed Artistic Advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Republished by Blog Post Promoter<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/div>\n