Track Listing

1. Double Violin Concerto - featuring Mark O'Connor, violin;Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin; Colorado Symphony Orchestra.Swing (11:34)Midnight on the Dance Room Floor (8:56)Dixieland (11:40)
2. Appalachia Waltz - (6:22) - Featuring Mark O'Connor, violin; Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
3. Johnny Appleseed Suite - Featuring Mark O'Connor, violin;John Jarvis, piano; Bryan Sutton, guitar; Colorado Symphony Orchestra Marching Along the Ohio Frontier (4:58)Johnny's Apple Pie (5:09)Three Angel Brides (4:59)The Life and Times of Johnny Appleseed (3:10)
4. Amazing Grace (P.D. Arr. O'Connor/Meyer) (3:21)Featuring Mark O'Connor, violin; Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14175 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-14
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Double Violin Concerto was written for and performed here with the fiery virtuoso Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the acclaimed Colorado Symphony Orchestra is a stunning composition, intricate in it's construction and swinging in these magnificent performances that prompted the Rocky Mountain News to describe it as "...a work that leaps, sighs and bounces with unstoppable energy"

Also on this disc, O'Connor's much beloved "Appalachia Waltz," a duet performed with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, his "Johnny Appleseed Suite," (recorded for a Grammy-nominated children's album) and his own moving arrangement of "Amazing Grace."

About the Artist
Grammy winning violinist and composer, Mark O'Connor is changing the face of American classical music. With his magnificent compositions and his astounding and widely recognized virtuosity, he is known as one of the most gifted musicians of our time. His melding of classical, jazz and folk influences have combined in his compositions and his playing to create (what many are calling) a new style of American string playing....a style that is influencing a new generation of musicians.