Music for Two

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.

Music For Two
Live album by
Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer
Released2004
RecordedOctober 2001 to September 2003
GenreClassical/Jazz
Length74:01
LabelSony Classical
ProducerBéla Fleck, Edgar Meyer
Béla Fleck chronology
Perpetual Motion
(2001)		 Music For Two
(2004)		 Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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]

Track listing
  1. "Bug Tussle" (Béla Fleck)
  2. "Invention No. 10" BWV 796 (Johann Sebastian Bach - arr:Fleck, Edgar Meyer)
  3. "Pile-up" (Fleck, Meyer)
  4. Prelude No. 24 BWV 869 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
  5. "Solar" (Miles Davis)
  6. "Blue Spruce" (Fleck)
  7. "Canon" (Meyer)
  8. "The One I Left Behind" (Fleck)
  9. Menuett I-II from Partia No. 1 BWV 825 (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
  10. Prelude No. 2 BWV 847 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
  11. "Palmyra" (Fleck, Meyer)
  12. "The Lake Effect" (Fleck)
  13. Largo from Sonata (Henry Eccles - arr:Meyer)
  14. Allegro Vivace from Sonata (Eccles - arr:Meyer)
  15. "Wrong Number" (Fleck, Meyer)
  16. "Woolly Mammoth" (Fleck, Meyer)
  17. "Wishful Thinking" (Meyer)

Personnel

Chart
Chart Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Classical Crossover 3

References
  1. Allmusic review
  2. Album review on www.allmusic.com
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