Sinfonica

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Sinfonica
Studio album by Mike Terrana

Publication
(s)

2010

Label (s) Troll Records

Format (s)

CD

Title (number)

11

running time

39:23

occupation

production

Mike Terrana

Studio (s)

2 Emme Studios, Italy

chronology
Man of the World
(2005) 		Sinfonica -

Sinfonica is the third studio album by American drummer Mike Terrana , released in 2010 .

General

Mike Terrana in action

Sinfonica was planned as a tribute album to Terrana's favorite drummer Cozy Powell , who was killed in a car accident in 1998. In 1976 Terrana had attended a Rainbow concert , where Powell bound an abridged version of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture in his solo. In the spring of 2009, Terrana considered how best to show his respect to Powell posthumously and came to the conclusion that he should record a new version of the 1812 Overture . In the summer of the same year, he started working on the project. He was so satisfied with the result that he decided to record ten more classical pieces. Terrana writes about the project in the album's booklet:

"I tried to envision what it would have been like if composers such as Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Rossini would have been able to employ the services of a modern day rock drummer to play on their compositions."

"I tried to imagine what it would be like if composers like Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Rossini had been able to apply the services (skills) of a modern rock drummer to their compositions."

All of the pieces on the album have been greatly shortened compared to the original. In addition, a double pedal can be heard in each piece . Terrana had two music videos made for the interpretation of the Little Night Music and the Cancan .

Track list

  1. New World Symphony - ( Antonín Dvořák )
  2. William Tell Overture - ( Gioachino Rossini )
  3. Rondo - ( Jean-Joseph Mouret )
  4. Concert for Violin & Oboe - ( Johann Sebastian Bach )
  5. Washington Post - ( John Philip Sousa )
  6. Barber of Seville - (Gioachino Rossini)
  7. Pomp & Circumstance - ( Sir Edward Elgar )
  8. Nutcracker Suite - ( Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )
  9. Cancan - ( Jacques Offenbach )
  10. A Little Night Music - ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart )
  11. 1812 Overture - (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)