''Music for Two'' is an album of duets by Edgar Meyer and Béla Fleck created and recorded while touring to support ''

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'' 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

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, an arrangement of a sonata by Henry Eccles, and piece by

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. 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. Album review on www.allmusic.com/ref>

Track listing

# "Bug Tussle" (Béla Fleck) # "Invention No. 10" BWV 796 (Johann Sebastian Bach - arr: Fleck, Edgar Meyer) # "Pile-up" (Fleck, Meyer) # Prelude No. 24 BWV 869 from ''

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'', Book I (Johann Sebastian Bach - arr: Fleck, Meyer) # "

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" (Miles Davis) # "Blue Spruce" (Fleck) # "Canon" (Meyer) # "The One I Left Behind" (Fleck) # Menuett I-II from Partia No. 1 BWV 825 (Johann Sebastian Bach - arr: Fleck, Meyer) # Prelude No. 2 BWV 847 from ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', Book I (Johann Sebastian Bach - arr: Fleck, Meyer) # "Palmyra" (Fleck, Meyer) # "The Lake Effect" (Fleck) # Largo from ''Sonata'' (

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- arr: Meyer) # Allegro Vivace from ''Sonata'' (Henry Eccles - arr: Meyer) # "Wrong Number" (Fleck, Meyer) # "Woolly Mammoth" (Fleck, Meyer) # "Wishful Thinking" (Meyer)

Personnel

* Béla Fleck –

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* Edgar Meyer –

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References

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