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Shining Night / Anne Akiko Meyers
Avie Records

Shining Night / Anne Akiko Meyers

$19.99

Details

Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Leo Brouwer, Arcangelo Corelli, Luigi Creatore, Duke Ellington, Morten Laurid
Artist
Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux, Fabio Bidini
Format
CD
Label
Avie Records
Released
May 06, 2022
Catalog #
AV2455
UPC
822252245523

About

Anne Akiko Meyers has amassed a multitude of fans and admirers for her exquisitely curated recordings, often exploring her passion for new music, and old music in new guises. Her quest for creative collaborations has inspired countless commissions and world-premieres, with the results infusing Shining Night, an album that embraces themes of love, poetry, and nature.

Anne’s fruitful association with composer Morten Lauridsen led to the arrangement of his popular choral work Sure on this Shining Night, for violin and piano, lending its name to the album’s title. From there springs forth an album imbued with music of light and hope, spanning the history of music through Baroque, Romantic, Popular, and current genres. J.S.Bach’s beautiful Air in G and Corelli’s colorful La Folia – arranged for violin and guitar – rub shoulders with Latin-tinged Estrellita (Little Star) by Manuel Ponce, the Aria from Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, and Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango. Two of the 20th century’s most iconic songs appear in intimate and tender new arrangements: Duke Ellington’s (In My) Solitude, and Can’t Help Falling in Love, famously crooned by The King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley. Anne’s collaborators are eminent Italian pianist Fabio Bidini and Grammy Award-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux.

REVIEW:

Few violinists would have had the idea to ask the quintessential choral composer Morton Lauridsen, as Meyers did, to arrange two of his choral works for duo with violin. Fewer would have juxtaposed Lauridsen with Elvis Presley, and fewer still would have been able to make this marvelously varied program hang together. Meyers transforms the basic violin encore type of program into something new and fresh. She has made a specialty of bold, original, and immediate programming, but has outdone herself this time.

-- AllMusicGuide.com (James Manheim)

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 12, "La folia" (arr. A. Paxon for violin and guitar) 08:32
    Track
    1
    Title
    Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5, No. 12, "La folia" (arr. A. Paxon for violin and guitar)
    Duration
    08:32
    Composer
    Arcangelo Corelli
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  2. 2 Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air, "Air on the G String" (arr. A. Campbell and A. Poxon for violin and guitar) 05:26
    Track
    2
    Title
    Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air, "Air on the G String" (arr. A. Campbell and A. Poxon for violin and guitar)
    Duration
    05:26
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  3. 3 Cantabile in D Major, Op. 17, MS 109 (version for violin and guitar) 03:39
    Track
    3
    Title
    Cantabile in D Major, Op. 17, MS 109 (version for violin and guitar)
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Niccolò Paganini
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  4. 4 Estrellita (arr. J. Heifetz and A. Poxon for violin and piano) 03:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    Estrellita (arr. J. Heifetz and A. Poxon for violin and piano)
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Manuel María Ponce
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Fabio Bidini
  5. 5 Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: No. 1. Aria (arr. A. Poxon for violin and guitar) 05:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: No. 1. Aria (arr. A. Poxon for violin and guitar)
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  6. 6 In My Solitude (arr. R. DeRosa for violin and guitar) 03:12
    Track
    6
    Title
    In My Solitude (arr. R. DeRosa for violin and guitar)
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Duke Ellington
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  7. 7 I. Bordel 1900 03:54
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Bordel 1900
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  8. 8 II. Café 1930 07:29
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Café 1930
    Duration
    07:29
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  9. 9 III. Nightclub 1960 05:50
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Nightclub 1960
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  10. 10 IV. Concert d'aujourd'hui 02:53
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Concert d'aujourd'hui
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  11. 11 Can't Help Falling in Love (arr. A. Poxon for violin and guitar) 03:13
    Track
    11
    Title
    Can't Help Falling in Love (arr. A. Poxon for violin and guitar)
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  12. 12 Laude al árbol gigante (Laude to the Giant Sequoia Tree) 04:33
    Track
    12
    Title
    Laude al árbol gigante (Laude to the Giant Sequoia Tree)
    Duration
    04:33
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux
  13. 13 Les Chansons des roses: No. 5. Dirait-on (version for violin and piano) 04:55
    Track
    13
    Title
    Les Chansons des roses: No. 5. Dirait-on (version for violin and piano)
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Morten Lauridsen
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Fabio Bidini
  14. 14 Sure On This Shining Night (version for violin and piano) 04:56
    Track
    14
    Title
    Sure On This Shining Night (version for violin and piano)
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Morten Lauridsen
    Performer
    Anne Akiko Meyers, Fabio Bidini