Zuill Bailey - Russian Masterpieces for Cello & Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On the occasion of it's 40th anniversary Carus has initiated a new series Carus Classics, featuring ten outstanding CD productions from the past library of recordings. This exclusive collection, designed by Friedrich Forssman and Cornelia Feyll, is presented in high-quality DigiPacs and each CD includes an extensive booklet. '... exemplary recording.' (New Classics, September 2005)

Zuill Bailey - Debut Recording [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/18/2003

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.