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Short Trip Home is an album of classical chamber music by a quartet unusual both for its membership and its instrumentation. Double bassist Edgar Meyer wrote the majority of the compositions recorded on the album for a quartet of violin, double bass, mandolin, and guitar. Classically-trained violinist Joshua Bell joins bluegrass musicians Sam Bush and Mike Marshall and the versatile Meyer on the album. In addition to classical music in an America... more
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  • 1999

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Musical Album

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Sony Classical Records

Sony Classical Records was started in 1927 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of the American Columbia Records. In 1948, it issued the first long-playing 12" record. Over the next decades its artists included Isaac Stern, Pablo Casals, Vladimir Horowitz, Eugene Ormandy, Vangelis, Elliot...

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