Music for Two is an album of duets by Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger...

 and Béla Fleck

Béla Fleck

Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

 created and recorded while touring to support Perpetual Motion

Perpetual Motion (album)

Perpetual Motion is an album of classical music released in 2001. The album is unique in that none of the pieces featured on it are played on the instruments for which they were written. Arrangers Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer won a Grammy in 2002 for their arrangement of Claude Debussy's "Doctor...

and released by Sony Classical

Sony Classical Records

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 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 J. S. Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

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

Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...

.

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.

Track listing

1. "Bug Tussle" (Béla Fleck)
2. "Invention No. 10" BWV 796 (Johann Sebastian Bach - arr:Fleck, Edgar Meyer)
3. "Pile-up" (Fleck, Meyer)
4. Prelude No. 24 BWV 869 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
5. "Solar
   Solar (composition)
   "Solar" is a musical composition attributed to Miles Davis on the studio album Walkin , considered a modern jazz standard. There is disagreement concerning the exact pronunciation of the tune, whether it was intended as or...
   
   " (Miles Davis)
6. "Blue Spruce" (Fleck)
7. "Canon" (Meyer)
8. "The One I Left Behind" (Fleck)
9. Menuett I-II from Partia No. 1 BWV 825 (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
10. Prelude No. 2 BWV 847 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Bach - arr:Fleck, Meyer)
11. "Palmyra" (Fleck, Meyer)
12. "The Lake Effect" (Fleck)
13. Largo from Sonata (Henry Eccles - arr:Meyer)
14. Allegro Vivace from Sonata (Eccles - arr:Meyer)
15. "Wrong Number" (Fleck, Meyer)
16. "Woolly Mammoth" (Fleck, Meyer)
17. "Wishful Thinking" (Meyer)

Chart

Chart	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Classical Crossover	3