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Drawing on such musical sources as Cuban lullabys, East Indian music, folk, jazz, Yoruban songs and impressionist harmonies, Bridges was recorded between May 1992 and May 1993 at The Music Gallery in Toronto, Ontario.
A Canadian Piano Album is an important new release by Allen Reiser, a pianist well known for his dedication to Canadian music. This recording will be of great interest to performers, teachers, senior piano students and Canadian music enthusiasts, as it contains many of the most popular and often performed piano works of ten outstanding Canadian composers.
Music from 6 Continents
1993 Series
Featured on this compact disc is Wu-Yu, the winning work in Vienna Modern Masters' Third Annual Orchestral Recording Award Competition. The other four works, by composers resident in the United States, Canada, Japan and Austria, are also heard here on compact disc for the first time.
Progression
From Romantic South American to Canadian New Music
From the romantic miniature tone poems of Barrios and the exuberant Afro-Caribbean folk rhythms of Casseus to the exotic colours of Domeniconi, we hear a rich legacy of influences that have come to bear on guitar music in the late Twentieth century.
Phoenix: Live in Copenhagen
Phoenix Chamber Choir
Phoenix Chamber Choir recorded live in Copenhagen, 1996
This two-CD set from 1997 reissues Phil Nimmons five-part work, Atlantic Suite and the 17-minute Suite P.E.I., which was part of an obscure Canadian sampler LP, and adds a full CD of previously unreleased material.
Bellows & Brass (Guy Few, trumpet and piano ; Joseph Petric, accordion ; Alain Trudel, trombone) ; Boyd McDonald, piano.
Matthews / Fisher
Two Canadian Piano Masterworks, World Premiere Recordings
The Upstream Ensemble is a composer/performer collective based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Their remarkable music is a hybrid of the rich musical experience of all eight of its members.
Wind
Chromos Saxophone Quartet
Luc Marcel created a spectacular theatre piece Wind for saxophone quartet and modern dance ensemble that includes a gigantic inflatable plastic rectangular performance bubble.
Produced by Dylan Bell and Voyces Past
The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra began in 1930 as the Junior Symphony. Today there are four orchestra divisions comprised of students from the beginning string musician to those in advanced university studies.
España
And Other Orchestral Works, Vol. II
Once upon a time the Goddess Saraswati seized a demon and used his body to make the world's first Veena. On this CD, Lakshmi Ranganathan takes up her great grandfather's Veena and gives us access to that other world.
Requiem / Panachyda
for the victims of Chornobyl
Toronto-based Roman Hurko is a composer and opera stage director, having worked with Placido Domingo, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Andrea Bocelli and film directors Atom Egoyan and Werner Herzog, among others.
Few albums in today's thickly packed CD catalogues can match Musics Ancient and Modern for a variety of style of tonal brilliance.
Jamie Syer is a piano soloist, chamber music performer, conductor, clinician and teacher who lives near Sundre, Alberta.
This compact disc, celebrates David Keane's 50th year, with works for solo wind instruments and digital electronics.
Triptyque – Hervé Galli
oeuvres pour piano
Atlantis presents three daily aspects of radio: information (by commenting on the possible evolution of a society), entertainment (since, through its different musical segments, it attempts to stimulate different aspects of our being), and culture.
Grayfolded is a 2-CD album produced by John Oswald featuring the Grateful Dead song Dark Star.
A faded photo, a sound, an object such as an old book or a toy, a grave, a dream, an evening alone - any of these things can carry us back into the shadowy past, sometimes even far away into ancient times.
Jasper Wood paired moments of glistening display with a sweet tunefulness edged in melancholy. - Washington PostGo to Top
