Drummer Mike Terrana (TARJA TURUNEN, MASTERPLAN, AXEL RUDI PELL, RAGE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) released his third solo album, Sinfonica, late last year which contains 11 famous classical orchestral covers.

Terrana talks about the project with Evans Percussion below:

About the project Terrana stated recently: "The idea for the Sinfonica project originally came into being, because I wanted to make a tribute song for one of my favorite drummers, Cozy Powell (RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH). Cozy was tragically killed in a car accident 10 years ago. I felt this was a great loss to the music and drumming community and I wanted to do something in a musical context to keep his memory alive. In 1976, I was fortunate enough to see Cozy Powell play along to an abbreviated version of Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' in his drum solo with Rainbow. It was fascinating to see a rock drummer attempting to play such a monumental piece of classical music.

During the early part of 2009 I was thinking about how I could pay my respects to Mr. Powell, when I came upon the idea to record a new version of the '1812 Overture'. I started working on the '1812 Overture' track in the summer of 2009 and was very satisfied with the outcome. I enjoyed playing along with the orchestral tracks so much that I decide to seek out another 10 well-known classical pieces. This is a task more easily said then done, because there is a multitude of classical music out there, but not all of it works within the boundaries of the drumming concept. Once I found the correct pieces, I set to work on adapting and composing drum grooves and fills to go along with the music. 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. A little over a year later from the inception of this project, I am proud to announce the completion of Sinfonica. This CD contains 11 classical pieces, a Making of Sinfonica' video, and two performance videos. Sinfonica is a celebration of some of the greatest and most famous classical music ever written and a tribute to the main inspiration for this project, Cozy Powell."

Sinfonica features the following tracks:

'New World Symphony' - Antonín Dvorák

'William Tell Overture' - Gioachino Rossini

'Rondo' - J. Mouret

'Concert For Violin & Oboe' - Johann Sebastian Bach

'Washington Post' - John Philip Sousa

'Barber Of Seville' - Gioachino Rossini

'Pomp & Circumstance' - Sir. Edward Elgar

'Nutcracker Suite' - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

'Cancan' - Jacques Offenbach

'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

'1812 Overture' - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' can be heard on YouTube below: