The original version of the work was not premiered until March 1984, when Dennis Russell Davies and the American Composers Orchestra performed it in New York City.
He has composed three major operas, McTeague, A View From the Bridge, and A Wedding, all commissioned and premiered by the Lyric Opera of Chicago conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
Dennis Hopper | Bertrand Russell | Russell Crowe | Frederick Russell Burnham | Russell Simmons | Kurt Russell | Russell Brand | Ray Davies | Ken Russell | Dennis Quaid | Dennis the Menace | Dennis Rodman | Leon Russell | Robertson Davies | Dennis Miller | Rosalind Russell | Peter Maxwell Davies | Dennis Potter | Dennis Haysbert | Russell Street | Russell Mulcahy | Nipsey Russell | George Russell | Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series) | Dennis Kucinich | Russell Street, Melbourne | James Russell Lowell | Andrew Davies | Russell Howard | Russell Drysdale |
Championed internationally by the likes of Dennis Russell Davies, Jansug Kakhidze, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Kim Kashkashian, Mstislav Rostropovich, and the Kronos Quartet, Kancheli has seen world premieres of his works in Seattle, as well as with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur.
Strings Ensemble, Caen Symphony orchestra, Orchestre Pasdeloup, under conductors Yuri Bashmet, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Dennis Russell Davies, Mishiyoshi Inoue, Kazuki Yamada,
The baritone Bruce Hubbard, recorded it as "The Golden Willow Tree" in 1989 for his album "For You, For Me", with Dennis Russell Davies and the Orchestra of St. Luke's.