Catalogue

Summary:

“the sheer sensuous beauty of the music-making is not to be denied.” ★★★★ – James Manheim, AllMusic.com

“Meyers executes everything beautifully, with pure intonation and silvery tone…” Stephen Francis Vasta, Postive-Feedback.com

“these 18 minutes of music are full of beauty and affect… and a fine introduction to Meyers, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and conductor Grant Gershon.” – Matthew Whitfield, The Wholenote.com

“a more glorious 19 minutes would be hard to find … a release that is less than 19 minutes long, but my goodness, it provides an album’s worth of musical satisfaction.” – Karl Nehring, Classical Candor

“As always with Avie, the recorded sound is powerful and clear” – American Record Guide

Superstar violinist Anne Akiko Meyers’ imagination and ingenuity knows no bounds. Her idea to persuade leading living composer Morten Lauridsen to transform his choral masterpiece, O Magnum Mysterium, into a work for violin and choir is a masterstroke. Teaming up with conductor Grant Gershon – who first collaborated with Anne as chamber musicians over 40 years ago – and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, for whom Lauridsen was their first Composer in Residence, Anne rounds out this 4-track EP with three other arrangements for violin and chorus of ever-popular works by J.S. Bach.

Tracklist:

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750), arr. Samuel Adler – World Premiere
1. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring 3:34 

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH , arr. Len Rhodes – World Premiere
2. Sheep may safely graze 4:19
3. Wachet auf, Sleepers wake 4:21

MORTEN LAURIDSEN (1943–), arr. Gershon/Lauridsen
4. O Magnum Mysterium 6:35

Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, conductor
Jaebon Hwang, organ (1-3)

Executive Producer: Anne Akiko Meyers | Producer: David Frost
Recording Engineers: Silas Brown, Sergey Parfenov, Fred Vogler | Mastering: Silas Brown
Recorded: Walt Disney Concert Hall, March 21, 2022