popular music: Edgar Meyer     popular music:     Edgar Meyer      Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble Sony, 2002 A thoroughly enjoyable trip through Central Asia and a few other places. I have just added this to my musical library and am enjoying it. From the first beat of the first note of Khongozurl's long song you are transported to central Asia - the land of horses and gers. Of all the pieces I was most interested in listening to the second ...             Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile Nonesuch, 2008 Brilliant. To those not used to 20th century composition, this might be a difficult listen. To those with ears for dissonance, this will be a pleasure.             Appalachia Waltz / Ma, Meyer, O'Connor Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma, ... Sony, 1996 Welcome to "alternative" classical music! It's wonderful to hear three such talented musicians put together a collection of non-classical music on revered instruments. This is not "The Yo-yo Ma Show" with two other guys! The music is varied but the performances are great and -- in some cases, e.g. Appalachia ...             The Essential Yo-Yo Ma Edgar Meyer, Hector Console, ... Sony, 2005 pure genius No instrument asks more from the soul of an artist as the cello does. Yo Yo Ma shows to be master of the instrument and his interpretations en technique are pure genius. Everyone should have this album in his (or hers of course) basic classical collection             Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile (W/Dvd) (Dlx) Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile Nonesuch, 2008 Deluxe Edition CD+DVD. DVD features performances and interviews.             Perpetual Motion Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, ... Sony, 2001 Soul Food This is exquisite! The best of human experience encoded on a simple CD disk.             Uncommon Ritual Edgar Meyer, Béla Fleck, ... Sony, 1997 Creative Composers with a New Vein of Music There is a real joy in discovering the work of contemporary composers who lighten the music world with abundant creativity. Such is the case for Edgar Meyer, B?la Fleck and Mike Marshall. These three not only compose but also perform their own compositions on this ...             Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, ... Sony, 2001 Exquisitely good music! Didn't expect an outstanding cd, don't know exactly why i got it,maybe because of yo yo and bela, but every piece is played beautifully, even the vocal piece by James Taylor. The album is almost too good to be called Heartland, every piece is a class act. Bravo!             Appassionato Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, ... SONY CLASSICS, 2007 There Aren't Enough Stars... Of the thousands of albums/cds I have purchased in my lifetime -- were I to have to pick only one to keep -- this would be it. The mark of the collection is an exquisite sensibility and technical excellence. In several of the pieces, you can feel as if your soul, ...             Appalachian Journey Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, ... Sony, 2000 Best on the Planet! These are flawless preformances of great music by some of the most talented artists on the planet. Slumber My Darling will leave you so relaxed you'll have to remember to breathe. The reels will bring you to your feet. This music reaches the soul as well as the ear.             Skip, Hop & Wobble Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, ... Sugarhill, 1993 Fantastic What a great CD - I have it on my i-pod and it is the best music - transports one to another world             Schubert: "Trout " Quintet Yo-Yo Ma, Franz Schubert, ... Sony, 2005 cheaper reissue of a fine recording from 1995, with the loss of booklet notes Sony has of course in its catalog one recording of the "Trout" quintet which has universally been recognized as a truly "great performance" since its first publication in 1967: the one by Rudolf Serkin and his partners from the Marlboro festival, now available with ...             Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites: Performed on Double Bass Johann Sebastian Bach, Edgar Meyer Sony, 2000 Still my favorite bass cd Without the tone of the instrument, you would never guess that a bass was playing at this level of precision. The pharisees of classical music who critique Meyer's performance for not sounding enough like a cello or not being Baroque enough is the equivalent of ...             The Fiddle Concerto Mark O'Connor Warner Bros / Wea, 1995 Bluegrass Meets Mozart This wonderful CD is an honest attempt to marry American bluegrass idom to classical music forms. The result manages to be both toe-tapping and extraordinarily rich; maybe Dvorak would have joined in with O'Connor if he were alive today and came back to Iowa. I can't ...             Music for Two (Bonus DVD) Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, ... Sony, 2004 A Must Have These two really sound good together. If you're not so impressed with the music when you first hear it (I don't know if that's possible), check out the DVD that comes with it. You will gain such an appreciation for the music that's being played. Watch out for the guy ...          products you might be interested in   search for popular music appalachia, appalachian, appassionato, essential, perpetual, unaccompanied      geepe.com    web randomly chosen book: Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting