Perpetual Motion (album)

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Track listing

1. "Keyboard Sonata In C Major" (K 159, L 104) (Domenico Scarlatti
   Domenico Scarlatti
   
   Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti , son of the composer Alessandro Scarlatti, was an Italy composer who spent much of his life in Spain and Portugal....
   ) – 2:19
   • Béla Fleck – banjo; Chris Thile – mandolin
2. "Two Part Invention No. 13 In A Minor" (BWV 784) (Johann Sebastian Bach
   Johann Sebastian Bach
   
   Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
   ) – 1:45
   • Fleck – banjo; Evelyn Glennie – marimba
3. "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" from Children's Corner Suite
   Children's Corner
   
   Children's Corner is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy, completed in 1908 .It is dedicated to Debussy's daughter, Claude-Emma , who was three years old at the time....
    (L 113) (Claude Debussy
   Claude Debussy
   
   Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
   ) – 2:25
   • Fleck – banjo; Joshua Bell – violin; Gary Hoffman – cello
4. Mazurka In F Sharp Minor, Op. 59 No. 3 (Frédéric Chopin
   Frédéric Chopin
   
   Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
   ) – 3:43
   • Fleck – banjo; John Williams – guitarist
5. "Prelude" from Partitia No. 3 for Solo Violin (BWV 1006) (Bach) – 3:47
   • Fleck – banjo
6. Etude In C Sharp Minor, Op. 10 No. 4 (Chopin) – 2:13
   • Fleck – banjo; Hoffman – cello
7. Mazurka In F Sharp Minor, Op. 6 No. 1 (Chopin) – 2:24
   • Fleck – banjo; Bell – violin
8. Three-Part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 10 (BWV 796) (Bach) – 1:01
   • Fleck – banjo; Thile – mandolin; Edgar Meyer – bass
9. Melody In E-flat (Peter Tchaikovsky
   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
   
   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
   ) – 3:15
   • Fleck – banjo; Meyer – piano
10. "Presto No. 1 In G Minor After Bach" from Five Studies for Piano (Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms
    
    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    ) – 1:49
    • Fleck – banjo; Glennie – marimba
11. "Prelude" from Suite for Unaccompanied Cello
    Cello Suites (Bach)
    
    The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are acclaimed as some of the greatest works ever written for solo cello and some of the greatest of all music....
     No. 1 (BWV 1007) (Bach) – 2:17
    • Fleck – banjo
12. Three-Part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 15 (BWV 801) (Bach) – 1:14
    • Fleck – banjo; Bell – violin; Glennie – marimba
13. Moto Perpetuo Op. 11 No. 2 (Nicolò Paganini
    Niccolò Paganini
    
    Niccol? Paganini was an Italy violinist, viola, classical guitar, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique....
    ) – 3:40
    • Fleck – banjo; Meyer – piano
14. Keyboard Sonata In D Minor (K 213, L 108) (Scarlatti) – 4:51
    • Fleck – banjo; Thile – mandolin
15. Two Part Invention No. 6 (BWV 777) (Bach) – 2:29
    • Fleck – banjo; Meyer – bass
16. "Adagio Sostenuto" from Piano Sonata No. 14 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight"
    Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)
    
    The Piano sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Opus number 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is popularly known as the "Moonlight" Sonata ....
     (Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    ) – 5:07
    • Fleck – banjo; Hoffman – cello; Meyer – bass
17. Two Part Invention No. 11 (BWV 782) (Bach) – 0:55
    • Fleck – banjo; Glennie – marimba
18. Seven Variations In C On "God Save The King
    God Save the Queen
    
    "God Save the Queen", or "God Save the King", is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms. It is the national anthem of the United Kingdom, Norfolk Island, one of the two national anthems of the Cayman Islands and New Zealand and the royal anthem of Canada , Australia , the Isle of Man, Belize, Jamaica, and Tuvalu....
    " (Beethoven) – 9:06
    • Fleck – banjo; Williams – guitar
19. Three-Part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 7 (BWV 793) (Bach) – 2:01
    • Fleck – banjo; Bell – violin; Meyer – bass
20. Moto Perpetuo Op. 11 No. 2 (Bluegrass Version) (Paganini - arr:James Bryan Sutton) – 2:38
    • Fleck – banjo; James Bryan Sutton – guitar

Personnel

• Béla Fleck - Gibson
  Gibson Guitar Corporation
  
  The Gibson Guitar Corporation, of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, is a manufacturer of Steel-string guitar and electric guitars. Gibson also owns and makes guitars under such brands as Epiphone, Kramer Guitars, Valley Arts Guitar, Tobias , Steinberger, and Gibson Kalamazoo Electric Guitar....
   1937 style 75 banjo
  Banjo
  
  The banjo is a stringed instrument developed by Slavery in the United States Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments....
  , Gold Star banjo with thick gut
  Catgut
  
  Catgut is a type of cord usually prepared from the intestines of sheep or goat. It can also be made using the intestines of a Hog , horse, mule, pig or donkey....
   strings on Two-Part Invention No. 13
• Joshua Bell - Tom Taylor Stradivarius
  Stradivarius
  
  A Stradivarius is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial....
   violin
  Violin
  
  The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
   of 1732
• Gary Hoffman - 1662 Nicolò Amati cello
  Cello
  
  The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
   made in Cremona, Italy
  Cremona
  
  Cremona is a city in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments....
  
• Evelyn Glennie - Malletech marimba
  Marimba
  
  The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion instrument family. Keys or bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys to aid the performer both visually and physically....
  
• Edgar Meyer - Customized 1769 Gabrielli double bass
  Double bass
  
  The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
  , piano
  Piano
  
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
   on Melody in E-flat and Moto Perpetuo
• Chris Thile - 2000 Lynn Dudenbostel F5 mandolin
  Mandolin
  
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
  
• James Bryan Sutton - 1996 Bourgeois D150 steel string guitar
  Guitar
  
  The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
  
• John Williams - 2000 Greg Smallman and Sons guitar

Awards

• Winner- Best Instrumental Arrangement - Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer (arrangers) for Debussy: Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum performed by Béla Fleck with Joshua Bell and Gary Hoffman
• Winner- Best Classical Crossover Album