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Pianist Eve Egoyan champions music by living composers. Weave features four world première recordings of works composed for her by uniquely individual compositional voices.The Trial of St-Orange is an exploration of Middle Eastern-influenced psychedelia.Peggy Lee’s compositions kick, simmer and sing, and confirm her as a major talent with seamless improvisations.
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Scènes d'enfance brings together three works on the same theme, that of the imaginary world of the child.Gathering brings together the most exceptional music and video art of Toronto duo Smash and Teeny, created live in performance, studio and site-specific outdoor locations in Canada, the U.S. and England between 2001-2003.Symphonie romantique, for piano and orchestraEuphonia is the first CD in the accordion discography devoted to the compositions of women composers.ORIANA Women's Choir has created a Christmas CD featuring music that portrays the COMFORT AND JOY of the holiday season.Improvised, moody, atmospheric electronic music.Music for Trombone by Canadian ComposersA tribute to Michel-Georges Brégent.Phil Ogison's meditations on clouds, using no synthesizers, all delayed electric guitar.Au cœur du litige is a radiophonic work consisting at its core of a series of solo clarinet improvisations.Drummer Michel Lambert's five-part work Le Passant matches together improvisers with non-improvising but virtuosic classical musicians, pitting them against each other rather than seeking a blend.WOWOW was recorded live on November 14 and 15, 1997, as the New Orchestra Workshop (or NOW Orchestra) was celebrating its 20th anniversary with a concert series in hometown Vancouver, Canada. Three new works were created for the occasion, all of them featured (in part) on this CD.The Big Top
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A one act story ballet. A little girl runs away to the circus and discovers the bright lights, the dark shadows, and finally friendship under the Big Top."Wu in Zen is ‘not’ the expected. The pleasure of Rudolf Komorous' Wu is the pleasure of the unexpected. Listening to a line of notes falling like water drops from a melting icicle, at irregular intervals, a note rising when you anticipate it will descend, a chord appearing in a line of single notes like a crow in a flight of sparrows. The pleasure of the unexpected." – WholeNoteChild With The Starry Crayon is the result of a collaboration between the ORIANA Women’s Choir and the Toronto District School Board. Six composers were commissioned by the choir to set selected student poetry to music for our special Poetry and Music Project.Dimiter Terziev has proved himself as a versatile pianist and a real master of the piano miniatureDavid French and Louis Simão celebrate the sounds of the world as they combine the power of folkloric music with the improvisational spirit of jazz.On Immaterial Tomas Jirku embodies headphone minimalism through a blend of very subtle, quiet passages constructed from field recordings, drones and stereo effects, combined with layers of his signature minimal-click dub sound.Created by Steve Venright, this two-and-a-half-hour-long sonic interpretation consists of over five hundred original recordings, made at locations specific to the text and woven into a reading of the entire four-book poem by the author Christopher Dewdney.Go to Top