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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.
The Transfigurations
for guitar
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.
Spirit Reel is a set of variations on an original reel of the same title.
Vivianne Cardinal assembled a group of renowned musicians whose improvising and accompanying prowess can't be disputed. Saxophonist Phil Dwyer, trumpeter Steve McDade, drummer Billy Drummond, pianist Brian Buchanan and bassist Jim Vivian each contribute with precision and creativity.
The selections on this recording offer a taste of some of the colourful and stylistically diverse types of music that embody the spirit of exploration and eclecticism shared by the opening and closing decades.
Thomas Baker, piano and Kye Marshall, cello recorded live November 1996, at Trinity United Church, Uxbridge, Ontario.
Twenty-eight composers, from seven countries, have participated in this double CD project, bringing to the international audience a compilation with a diversity of electroacoustic works not usually found in single-artist projects.
Présence II is an appropriate title for the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC)/Productions Electro Productions (PeP) latest two compact disc set of electroacoustic compositions.
A Second Compilation of Works from the Members of the CEC
Twenty-three composers from around the world, most of whom have never met face to face, have joined together through the good graces of the CEC to prepare a self-funded compilation CD. This like-minded, aesthetically variant group share the historical desire to distribute the fruits of their labors.
Canadian composer Daniel Janke plays kora, a west African harp/lute and piano.
The album not too Dark is a retrospective of selected music performed by the ensemble and is accompanied by a printed collection of short stories featured in the past five years of Longest Night performances.
Nik Beeson's Howlings is comprised of three electronic works using divergent compositional techniques and technologies, and yet all sharing a common lineage of expression of minimalism and ambient music.
Golden Fire, a recording of three works of sublime listening pleasure, by Timothy Sullivan.
Stringtime is more than another technically skilled CD - it's sonically lovely, the performances are energetic and accomplished, and the compositions are beautifully balanced in time and style.
Kevin Barrett Trio
Opening & Closing Ceremonies
Xiii Pan American Games
All selections on this CD are for The Pan Am Games
A virtuoso concerto (*originally intended for amplified or electric violin) combining elements of jazz, rock, Broadway, and Hollywood in the form of a classical concerto. Commissioned by Arthur Polson and CBC Radio.
Legend of the First Rabbit with Robert Cram, flutist, and Julian Armour, cello and Elaine Keillor, piano.
Lynn Harting-Ware (guitar) plays so well that the colorful, poetical new pieces blend imperceptibly with standards such as Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Adelita. -The Tribune (Oakland)
This is an interesting collection of some real forward-thinking music....a highly adventurous and strangely beautiful recording. - The North Jersey Herald and News
Forest Scenes is a suite of three pieces with the general theme of nature.
The recording in its entirety is a masterpiece of guitar performance with impeccable sound quality. - Jazz & Tzaz (Athens, Greece)
I was delighted with Harting-Ware's adept rendition of Ferdinando Sor's Variation on a Theme by Mozart - Alternate Music Press
Rethink Forever
Vocal Music of Peter Hannan
Canadian composer Peter Hannan joins forces with three venerated Vancouver vocal entities, slathers them with weird electronic effects, and, in the process, pops open a strikingly odd treasure chest of pure sonic pleasure.Go to Top
