Nonesuch Records releases an album of Bach works recorded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and bassist Edgar Meyer, Bach Trios, on April 7, 2017. The album comprises works by J.S. Bach written for keyboard instruments, plus one sonata for viola da gamba (complete tracklisting below). In 2011, Ma, Thile, and Meyer—along with Stuart Duncan—collaborated on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, which won two Grammy Awards. Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer’s first recording together was the 1996 album Appalachia Waltz, which also featured fiddler Mark O’Connor; that album was followed by Appalachian Journey, also with O’Connor, in 2000. Meyer and Thile also began playing together nearly two decades ago, and first performed live as a duo in 2003. They have made two duo albums, 2008’s Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile and the Grammy–winning 2014 record Bass & Mandolin. TRACKLSTING Bach Trios I. Vivace II. Lento III. Allegro Prelude No. 19 in A Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 864 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 Fugue No. 20 in A Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 889 Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 Prelude in E Minor, BWV 548 Fugue No. 18 in E Minor, BWV 548 Passepied from Keyboard Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829 Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650 Contrapunctus XIII: Rectus from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 Contrapunctus XIII: Inversus from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721Sonata for Viola da Gamba No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 1029 Vivace Adagio Allegro
