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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
a circus ballet
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." – WholeNote
Child 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 miniature
David 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.
Bruce Pennycook's selected electroacoustic works composed and realized over a period of more than twenty years.
Magic Breath
English, Yiddish and Hebrew Arts Songs
Helen Medwedeff Greenberg's recording, Magic Breath is full of musical colour, emotion and life.
Helvetia
Orchestral Works by Paul M. Douglas
A beautiful disc of lush melodies and catchy rhythms by Paul M. Douglas.
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Queen Mab
Marilyn Lerner and Lori Freedman pair up as Queen Mab.
dearness features Fred Frith, certainly one of the great contributors to adventurous new music, John Oswald, (in)famous for his landmark plunderphonics work, and Anne Bourne, who carries her sense of musical adventure along with her cello gracefully across the musical spectrum.
Alogos was released by Spool Records in 2001, and was unanimously described by critics as "innovative" and "thrilling."
The Oriana Women's Choir presents works by prominent Canadian composers, Ruth Watson Henderson, Eleanor Daley, Ramona Leungen, and David MacIntyre.
Hommage à André Mathieu
oeuvres pour piano seul / solo paino works
André Mathieu tribute album by pianist, Alain Lefèvre.
This uniquely thrilling brassy ensemble includes Hugh Fraser's most diverse compositions from African, Latin to European forms that invoke the full contemporary musical spectrum and create a sonic feast like never heard before.
"Images is a fascinating collection of contemporary compositions compiled by Canadian guitar visionary, Rob MacDonald."
Canadian Music for Flute and Piano by Beth Ann DeSousa and Amy Hamilton
Flutist Karin Aurell is a freelancing musician in the Maritimes, combining chamber music performance, orchestra playing and teaching.
This recording celebrates the Talisker Players' tenth anniversary season, with some of the loveliest and most interesting music from the first ten years of the concert series.
Chor Leoni commissioned Vancouver composer Rupert Lang to write Magnificat. Using the unusual combination of mezzo-soprano soloist and male chorus, Lang seeks to express Mary’s personal, human response to the formal biblical text, with wonderful results.
"A thousand raves to Joseph Petric and the composers. This is accessible and culturally important experience to be heard time and time again." - Tiina Kiik, WholenoteGo to Top
