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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.
The Transfigurations
for guitar
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.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.Soundland Alberta
le pays sonore
Offering
Music by Three Hornby Island Composers
Ancient Gardens is Colleen Athparia's second solo CD. It showcases an array of rarely-recorded music by Brazilian, French, Spanish and Canadian composers.The Exultate Chamber Singers' third CD features twentieth century compositions based on the writings of William Shakespeare.Canadian drummer, composer and bandleader Jay Boehmer has been performing on the Toronto jazz scene since 1990. Composing at the piano with the spirit of a drummer, his music ranges from straight-ahead swing to offbeat rhythmic grooves.The Wellington Wind Symphony has released a number of CDs, including a studio-recording of works by local composers, An Artist’s Neighbourhood.This intriguing CD, by Diana McIntosh delivers a sextet of pieces that will tempt and satisfy the curious listener with a taste for adventure!The six works on this recording by Diana McIntosh represent a sampler of the colourful variety of her musical composition and the versatility of her performance style.Alan Stellings and Greg Paskaruk formed impromp2 cello and piano duo to explore ways of bringing together their many musical interests and influences.The Last Lp
Unique Last Recordings Of The Music Of Ancient Cultures
In 1987, Snow issued The Last LP (Art Metropole), which purported to be a documentary disc of the dying gasps of ethnic musical cultures from around the globe including Tibet, Syria, India, China Brazil, Finland and elsewhere.The Evergreen Club is an ensemble of eight musicians who perform on a collection of bronze, wood, bamboo and stringed instruments. Together these instruments are known as a gamelan, which has been an important part of Indonesian musical life for centuries.Mr. Underhill writes: "I have long been fascinated by the unusual and poetic place-names for lunar features which were created by Johannes Ricciocoli in the mid-17th century. One such name is the 'Bay of Dew' or 'Sinus Roris' in Latin. The 'Bay of Dew' is in fact a crater on the moon, but in my mind, I envisaged a tiny body of water that had been entirely created by the gradual collection of precious drops of dew as they formulated in the early morning hours."Sinfonia
Compositions by Ray Twomey
Improvisations
14 piano studies
Jete
Music For Violin
"These mature works point the way toward an integration of the folk and structuralist elements of Western music at the end of the twentieth century. Clearly the ideas of nationalism have not died, as long as composers such as Neceski continue to use their ethnic roots as a basis for their art." - Menon DwarkaJourney Begun is a musical “genre-bender,” bringing together a folk/blusey singer, funk/classical pianist, groove/new music guitarist, classical/jazz bassist, and classical string quartet to create new musical fusions which set unique colors for this refreshing collection of Canadian and American poetry.Dancing Rivers
from South Africa to Canada
Carol Anne Weaver's third CD, Dancing Rivers - From South Africa to Canada, is adventurous, unique, ground breaking.Titre
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