Artist: David Garrett
Birth Name: David Christian Bongartz
Born: September 4, 1980. Aachen, West Germany
Genre: Classical, Crossover, Easy Listening, Classic Crossover, Chamber Music, Concerto, Orchestral, Symphony
Occupation: Violinist, Composer, Arranger
Instrument: Violin
David Garrett is a German Classical, and Crossover Violinist, Composer and Arranger from Aachen, West Germany. He picked up. violin at age four after his older brother received one. By the age of seven, he studied violin at the Lubeck Conservatoire. When he was nine years old he gave his debut at the Festival Kissinger Sommer, and the age of 12, he began working with Polish Violinist Ida Haendel, often traveling to London and other European cities. After leaving home at 17, he enrolled at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1999, he moved to New York to attend the Juilliard School. In 2003 winning the School's Composition Competition with a fugue composed in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Title: Rock Symphonies (2026)
Genre: Classical, Crossover, Easy Listening, Classic Crossover, Chamber Music, Concerto, Orchestral, Symphony
Label: Decca
Rating: *****
Format: CD
Tracks:
1. Smell Like Teen Spirit (4:06)
2. November Rain (3:59)
3. The 5th (3:33)
4. Walk This Way (feat. Orianthi) (257)
5. Live And Let Die (3:25)
6. Vivaldi vs. Vertigo (3:15)
7. Master Of Puppets (3:47)
8. 80's Anthem (3:33)
9. Toccata (3:52)
10. Asturias (2:57)
11. Kashmir (3:36)
12. Rock Symphony (4:31)
13. Peer Gynt (2:33)
14. Mission Impossible (3:16)
15. Rocking All Over The World (3:43)
Personnel:
David Garrett: Violin
Marcus Wolf: Guitar on Tracks: 2, 8, 10-14
Frank Van Der Heijden: Guitar on Tracks: 1, 3, 5-7, 9-11, 14, 15
Orienthi: Guitar on Track 4
John Haywood: Piano on Tracks: 2, 8, 9, 12,15
Jeff Allen: Bass
Jeff Lipstein: Drums
Prague City Philharmonic Orchestra
Rock Symphonies is an album by David Garrett, releassed on September 24, 2010 by Decca Records.
