-
With fellow Canadian, Brian Dickenson attentive at the piano, Kenny Wheeler's distinctive flugelhorn sounds still more eloquent. The music on Still Waters is graceful and beautifully balanced, technically accomplished and pervaded by controlled emotion. - Julian Cowley, The WireEverything about this recording is elegant – the program, the performances, the liner notes, the jacket ~ Patricia Abbot, anacrusis, Fall 2004Victoria based, Miranda Sage offers a thrilling song cycle of reshaped jazz standards and playful originals describing love in all its many forms.Composer Allan Gordon Bell grew up and still lives in Alberta, Canada. It's a part of Canada where the Canadian prairie rises up to meet the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Bell writes deeply personal music about this part of Canada that he knows so well.Spirit Reel is a set of variations on an original reel of the same title.Spirit Journies, proposes a symbolic and dreamlike journey that envelops the listener with rich and diverse sounds.Spanner is a new-music duo comprised of multi-percussionist Rob Power, and woodwinds specialist Paul Bendzsa.Delicacy and aggression, subtlety and intensity, soul and passion, all coming within seconds on each song. The next step in Flamenco. - Bob Mersereau, CBCElectronic artist, Ghislain Poirier’s Sous le manguier might seem lavish, but ten seconds into the album’s opener, L’hiver neige, and it’s impossible not to be struggling to find appropriate descriptors.
Soundworlds
Music of Janácek - Carrabré - Debussy - Vivier - Willan
"Jan Järvlepp's music is full of life, breath and expression. His pieces lure the ear with familiar tidbits: tonal centers, recognizable structures, surging rhythms. But they also have strange yet gentle ways of revealing themselves...consistently engaging, variegated, and enjoyable...opens doorways through which listeners can jump into the music."A four-CD survey of Canadian piano works spanning 200 years from pianist Elaine Keillor.Peggy Lee’s compositions kick, simmer and sing, and confirm her as a major talent with seamless improvisations.Soundland Alberta
le pays sonore
Soundbook
Musique pour piano, ensembles de chambre et sons électroacoustiques
SOUNDBOOK de John Winiarz est une collection de musique pour piano solo et ensembles de chambre éclectiques couvrant la période 1974-2018.
Sound Reflections
Vol. 1: Off the Shelf
Sandra Joy Friesen is a pianist with a broad range of repertoire and musical interests, from traditional to contemporary, to interpretation of pictorial scores and inter-disciplinary collaboration.This fascinating selection of sonotexts by Toronto based artist W. Mark Sutherland, who acknowledges Bob Cobbing as his mentor, may well mark a critical development in the life of sound poetry. - Julian Cowley of The Wire (2012)Songs of the Stable
Christmas Music From Canada
Nominated for an East Coast Music Award, this is a wonderful Christmas gift for any music lover, and a treasure trove of new songs for choral enthusiasts to discover.Songs of Small Resistance
Limited edition vinyl with download card
Songs of Paradise – Chants du Paradis
Kazuhiro Koizumi, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Soprano Sophie Bouffard's debut release Songs of North with pianist David McIntyre.This album represents the voice of Albert Greer at its height, as he was heard live in many hundreds of concerts in a career spanning more than three decades.This is an eclectic collection of vocal music by Canadian composer Glenn Buhr, ranging from blues-flavoured works through medieval folk-like material to choral settings in the style of classical east Indian music.The CD is based on the celebrated Song of Solomon text from the Old Testament whose lyrical and sensual imagery is portrayed in a cycle of four movements subtitled Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night & Daybreak.Titre
Go to Top