Johann Sebastian Bach:
Jesu, joy of man’s desiring (arr. Samuel Adler)
Sheep may safely graze (arr. Len Rhodes)
Wachet auf, Sleepers wake (arr. Len Rhodes)

Morten Lauridsen:
O Magnum Mysterium (arr. Gershon/Lauridsen)

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 digital EP with three other arrangements for violin and chorus of ever-popular works by J.S. Bach. The result is gold dust for the holiday season.

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Recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, March 21, 2022. Anne Akiko Meyers performs on the Ex-Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesu, dated 1741.