Glass/ Kuusisto/ Norwegian Chamber Orch - First Light In Stock and David Ralicke on brass

and David Ralicke on brass and woodwind

Tarrega and Satie

Legendary guitar picker Merle Travis conveys a 1946 political issue with a vocal recording about soldiers returning home after WW2 1946

César Franck was inspired by the same poem

"We wanted to explore the dangers of living in your head too much

Glass/ Kuusisto/ Norwegian Chamber Orch - First Light In Stock and David Ralicke on brassViolinist Pekka Kuusisto and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra present First Light, the first fruit of Kuusisto's tenure as the ensemble's Artistic Director, on which two eminent New York composers are cast in a Nordic light. The album offers the world premiere recording of Nico Muhly's Shrink (Concerto for Violin and Strings), a unique, remotely recorded rendition of Philip Glass' The Orchard by Kuusisto and Muhly, and Kuusisto's new string orchestra