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Appalachia Waltz

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Released
  
17 September 1996

Length
  
69:38

Label
  
Sony Classical Records

Recorded
  
17–20 August 1995

Release date
  
17 September 1996

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Appalachia Waltz (1996)
  
Appalachian Journey (2000)

Artists
  
Yo-Yo Ma, Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer

Genres
  
Classical music, Bluegrass

Producers
  
Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor

Similar
  
Mark O'Connor albums, Classical music albums

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Appalachia Waltz is the first album from the trio of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, double-bassist and composer Edgar Meyer, and fiddler and composer Mark O'Connor. Sony Classical released the disc in 1996. The album announces a new kind of Americana-styled Western art music, with ancestry in old-timey, bluegrass, folk, and traditional European classical styles. It was recorded over three days, 14 August-17 August 1995. It is possible that the titles of these albums imply a continuity of the American classical tradition begun by Aaron Copland in Appalachian Spring.

Contents

In its June 1997 issue, Bass Player magazine named it one of "30 Essential Bass Albums You Must Own", due to Meyer's exceptional work on the album. The trio followed up this album with Appalachian Journey in 2000. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard's Top Classical Albums chart.

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Track listing

  1. "The Green Groves of Erin/The Flowers of Red Hill" (Traditional - arr:Edgar Meyer)
  2. "Appalachia Waltz" (Mark O'Connor - arr:Meyer)
  3. "Chief Sitting in the Rain" (Traditional - arr:Meyer, O'Connor)
  4. "Mama" (Meyer)
  5. "Butterfly's Day Out" (O'Connor - arr:Meyer)
  6. "Druid Fluid" (Meyer, O'Connor)
  7. "First Impressions" (Meyer)
  8. "Étienne et Petunia" (Meyer)
  9. "F.C.'s Jig" (O'Connor)
  10. "College Hornpipe" (Traditional - arr:Meyer, O'Connor)
  11. "Pickles" (Meyer)
  12. "Old Country Fairytale" (O'Connor)
  13. "Schizoozy" (Meyer)
  14. "Star of the County Down" (Traditional - arr:Meyer)
  15. "Speed the Plow Medley" (Traditional - arr:Meyer, O'Connor)
  16. "Fair Dancer Reel" (O'Connor - arr:Meyer)

Personnel

  • Mark O'Connor, violin, mandolin on "Butterfly's Day Out"
  • Yo-Yo Ma, cello
  • Edgar Meyer, bass, piano on "First Impressions"

    • Songs

    1The Green Groves of Erin / The Flowers of Red Hill3:04
    2Appalachia Waltz5:48
    3Chief Sitting In the Rain2:01

    References

    Appalachia Waltz Wikipedia
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