Perpetual Motion (album)


Perpetual Motion is an album of classical music released in 2001. The album is unusual 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 Gradus Ad Parnassum". The album also won a Grammy as Best Classical Crossover Album.
Fleck assembled a group of musicians well-known on their own instruments: violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Gary Hoffman, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, double-bassist Edgar Meyer, mandolin player Chris Thile, and guitarists John Williams and Bryan Sutton.

Track listing

All songs arranged by Edgar Meyer and Béla Fleck with additional arranger specified:
  1. "Keyboard Sonata In C Major" – 2:19
  2. "Two Part Invention No. 13 In A Minor" – 1:45
  3. "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" from Children's Corner Suite – 2:25
  4. Mazurka In F Sharp Minor, Op. 59 No. 3 – 3:43
  5. "Prelude" from Partitia No. 3 for Solo Violin – 3:47
  6. Etude In C Sharp Minor, Op. 10 No. 4 – 2:13
  7. Mazurka In F Sharp Minor, Op. 6 No. 1 – 2:24
  8. Three-Part Invention No. 10 – 1:01
  9. Melody In E-flat – 3:15
  10. "Presto No. 1 In G Minor After Bach" from Five Studies for Piano – 1:49
  11. "Prelude" from Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No. 1 – 2:17
  12. Three-Part Invention No. 15 – 1:14
  13. Moto Perpetuo Op. 11 No. 2 – 3:40
  14. Keyboard Sonata In D Minor – 4:51
  15. Two Part Invention No. 6 – 2:29
  16. "Adagio Sostenuto" from Piano Sonata No. 14 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight" – 5:07
  17. Two Part Invention No. 11 – 0:55
  18. Seven Variations In C On "God Save The King" – 9:06
  19. Three-Part Invention No. 7 – 2:01
  20. Moto Perpetuo Op. 11 No. 2 – 2:38

    Personnel

Grammy Awards of 2002