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"The four pieces collected on this CD are in some ways obviously disparate and perhaps more closely connected than is immediately apparent", comments Margaret Gay, artistic director of the Gallery Players of Niagara.Tsuzure highlights a broad range of music from the full assault of the taiko to melodic instruments such as the koto (Japanese zither), shakuhachi (flute), shinobue (folk flute), shamisen (lute) and voice.
Classical Fairy Tales
Patrick Cardy’s The Snow Queen & The Little Mermaid
Based on two familiar Hans Christian Anderson children’s stories, Patrick Cardy has woven his narrative and music into a palette of word and sound painting, suspense, and musical colours - Tiina Kiik - WholeNoteNew Music North was founded in 2001 with a mission to promote contemporary concert music by Canadian and international composers in Northwestern OntarioJohn Kameel Farah's Unfolding is a cycle of 10 pieces for piano and electronics, laced with odd-metered percussion, beat-driven symphonic arrangements, synthesizers and Fender Rhodes.Urban Diversions is a collection of jazz originals performed by Neil Currie and a band drawn from musicians of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and faculty of the University of Saskatchewan Department of Music.The Bliss of Solitude
Canadian Art Song
The Bliss of Solitude (from William Wordsworth's The Daffodils) is a selection of Canadian art songs taken from the three anthologies published by Alberta Keys Music.On the Steps
On The Steps of Mariyinsky Palace - Five Movements In Reflection
On the Steps of Mariyinsky Palace is a 30-minute concert piece for clarinet, violin and piano, and an abstract solo and double pas-de-deux ballet.Outward Voyage which is a compilation of Art Songs written for the performers by the Richmond, British Columbia composer Christopher Ludwig.Sur fond blanc was originally composed by Nicolas Bernier and Jacques Poulin-Denis as the sound score for La Chambre Blanche by O Vertigo dance company.What Sweeter Music, Christmas choral music by Canadian composer Eleanor Daley, features the choirs of Toronto’s Fairlawn Avenue United Church, (formerly Fairlawn Heights).Amy Hamilton, Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Music, has released a new CD which features flute quartets written by Canadian composers and recorded by Quartet Laurier.A superb collection of contemporary works for solo piano, brilliantly performed.DaCapo Chamber Choir directed by Leonard Enns wins National Choral Award for Outstanding Choral Recording.International Classical Music Award Commission Awards"Storyteller Ariel Balevi and guitarist/composer/improviser William Beauvais are a creative team to be reckoned with. Unspoken Dreams - Stories from Rumi is concurrently perplexing and interesting in its content and presentation." -Tiina Kiik, WholeNoteIn Good Company is the Canadian Chamber Choir's first studio album.A tribute to world renowned percussionists Don Wherry and John Wyre, Journey was five years in the making.Juno award winner Erica Goodman, one of the world's outstanding solo harpists plays her most favorite music.Continuous Music for Two Pianos in two parts.Vocalizes and Antiphons
Music of Solo Piano and String
Lubomyr Melnyk has transformed a string quartet into an unbroken stream of patterns and melodies -- the result is a peaceful and tender journey into ethereal landscapes... an acoustic dream of Swallows in the distance.The Music of Lubomyr Melnyk: The Stone Knight
Music for Solo and Double Pianos
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