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The Exultate Chamber Singers' third CD features twentieth century compositions based on the writings of William Shakespeare.Ancient Gardens is Colleen Athparia's second solo CD. It showcases an array of rarely-recorded music by Brazilian, French, Spanish and Canadian composers.
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Music by Three Hornby Island Composers
Soundland Alberta
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Guitar Originals is a recording of original works from the 20th century for classical guitar, featuring the only CD recording available of the Sonata for Guitar by the distinguished Canadian composer Harry Somers.After fifteen years of pushing the envelope, show-casing and commissioning chamber works by young Canadian composers, Continuum contemporary music is launching its first CD, entitled Continuum 1.The Transfigurations
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Inspired by a year-long sojourn in Spain and Europe, Danielle Cumming features works by composers who, like her, spent time in other cultures and came away with their own musical impressions, or postcards.Spirit Reel is a set of variations on an original reel of the same title.Vivianne Cardinal assembled a group of renowned musicians whose improvising and accompanying prowess can't be disputed. Saxophonist Phil Dwyer, trumpeter Steve McDade, drummer Billy Drummond, pianist Brian Buchanan and bassist Jim Vivian each contribute with precision and creativity.The selections on this recording offer a taste of some of the colourful and stylistically diverse types of music that embody the spirit of exploration and eclecticism shared by the opening and closing decades.Thomas Baker, piano and Kye Marshall, cello recorded live November 1996, at Trinity United Church, Uxbridge, Ontario.Golden Fire, a recording of three works of sublime listening pleasure, by Timothy Sullivan.Stringtime is more than another technically skilled CD - it's sonically lovely, the performances are energetic and accomplished, and the compositions are beautifully balanced in time and style.Kevin Barrett TrioLynn Harting-Ware (guitar) plays so well that the colorful, poetical new pieces blend imperceptibly with standards such as Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Adelita. -The Tribune (Oakland)This is an interesting collection of some real forward-thinking music....a highly adventurous and strangely beautiful recording. - The North Jersey Herald and NewsForest Scenes is a suite of three pieces with the general theme of nature.The recording in its entirety is a masterpiece of guitar performance with impeccable sound quality. - Jazz & Tzaz (Athens, Greece)I was delighted with Harting-Ware's adept rendition of Ferdinando Sor's Variation on a Theme by Mozart - Alternate Music PressBig Pictures is a theatrical work by composer Michael J. Baker, painter Dan Solomon and choreographer Bill James."Peter Hannan’s cosmic tune about the evolution of memory and the birth of stars emerges from squelchy electronic beats and a lachrymose harmonic loop of Baroque provenance. Singer Christine Duncan completes the illusion of intimate thoughts filling a vast space." -R. Everett Green Globe and MailThe music for this collection, Ten Planets, represents a personally chosen repertoire distilled from many years of commissioning and performance, to capture meticulously prepared premiere recordings of works that cover the broad range of dynamics, colour and sheer kick-ass' drumming that define the medium of solo percussion.Eve Egoyan, specializing in the works of living composers, releases her first CD the things in between. The selections, all world premiere recordings, range from minimalist to experimental, from the lushly complex and abstract to compositions which recall a more standard classical repertoire.Titre
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