Zuill Bailey - Cello Concerto & Other Works - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The great cellist Zuill Bailey begins this program with the world premiere recording of Zwilich's beautiful Cello Concerto, a new and important work traversing many elements of the cello's singing sound. This marks Bailey's 6threcording for Delos. The amusing Peanuts® Gallery follows with a quote from Beethoven, which anyone familiar with the famous Charles Schulz cartoon knows is Schroeder's toy piano passion. Short movements portraying many of the other Peanuts® cartoon characters follow. Zwilich says that the Romance for Violin and Chamber Orchestra Inchcelebrates some of the simple pleasures of playing the fiddle,Inch and that the Prologue and Variations for String Orchestra highlights the Inchspecial sonorities, character and expressiveness of the string orchestra.Inch Conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong and the remarkable Santa Rosa Symphony bring full warmth and color to the music on this program. Album Tracks 1. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra~I. 2. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra~II. 3. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra~III. 4. Peanuts® Gallery for Piano and Orchestra~Schroeder's Beethoven Fantasy 5. Peanuts® Gallery for Piano and Orchestra~Lullaby for Linus 6. Peanuts® Gallery for Piano and Orchestra~Snoopy Does the Samba 7. Peanuts® Gallery for Piano and Orchestra~Charlie Brown's Lament 8. Peanuts® Gallery for Piano and Orchestra~Lucy Freaks Out 9. Peanuts® Gallery for Piano and Orchestra~Peppermint Patty and Marcie Lead the Parade 10. Romance for Violin and Chamber Orchestra 11. Prologue and Variations for String Orchestra~Prologue 12. Prologue and Variations for String Orchestra~Variations