''Appalachia Waltz'' is the first album from the trio of cellist

Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma ('' Chinese'': 馬友友 ''Ma Yo Yo''; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from ...

, double-bassist and composer

Edgar Meyer Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won five Grammy Awards and been nominated seven times. Meyer is a member of the Telluride Bluegras ...

, and fiddler and composer

Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player and composer whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards ...

. Sony Classical released the disc in 1996. It was recorded over three days, 14–17 August 1995. 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.

Track listing

#"The Green Groves of Erin/The Flowers of Red Hill" (Traditional - arr:Edgar Meyer) #"Appalachia Waltz" (Mark O'Connor - arr:Meyer) #"Chief Sitting in the Rain" (Traditional - arr:Meyer, O'Connor) #"Mama" (Meyer) #"Butterfly's Day Out" (O'Connor - arr:Meyer) #"Druid Fluid" (Meyer, O'Connor) #"First Impressions" (Meyer) #"Étienne et Petunia" (Meyer) #"F.C.'s Jig" (O'Connor) #" College Hornpipe" (Traditional - arr:Meyer, O'Connor) #"Pickles" (Meyer) #"Old Country Fairytale" (O'Connor) #"Schizoozy" (Meyer) #" Star of the County Down" (Traditional - arr:Meyer) #"Speed the Plow Medley" (Traditional - arr:Meyer, O'Connor) #"Fair Dancer Reel" (O'Connor - arr:Meyer)

Personnel

*Mark O'Connor,

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

, mandolin on "Butterfly's Day Out" *Yo-Yo Ma,

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

*Edgar Meyer, bass,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

on "First Impressions"

References

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