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Henry Kucharzyk is a composer too eclectic to be pigeon-holed. He is one of Canadian music's explorers. - William Littler, Toronto Star
5th Species is a woodwind quintet dedicated to performing adventurous repertoire by 20th century composers. The group is made up of Canadian and American musicians, and this is their debut recording.
Ensemble, Les Couscous Bénévoles - or the "Benevolent Cuckoos" - takes its name from a harpsichord piece by François Couperin. Comprised of some of Canada's most respected players in the field of early music, the Toronto-based ensemble is committed to performing both the great favourites and lesser known works of the Baroque and early Classical eras.
Hemispheres celebrates the release of its second CD, Chaser, featuring compositions by Canadian's Wende Bartley and Henry Kucharzyk, as well as the American composer Christian Wolff.
Music by Peter Hatch (Texts by Gertrude Stein) Performed by NUMUS.
This CD features contemporary big band music for the adventurous by the Toronto new music ensemble Hemispheres.
Five new works by Peter Hatch featuring the Canadian Chamber Ensemble conducted by Daniel Warren, the Penderecki String Quartet, and harpsichordist Cynthia Hiebert.
Four innovative acoustic works played by the excellent Canadian ensemble Arraymusic.
Evergreen Club is an ensemble of eight highly skilled Canadian musicians who perform and record using an assortment of bronze and wooden instruments from Indonesia. Collectively these instruments are known as a gamelan – a traditional instrument ensemble that plays an important role in the Indonesian culture.
The pieces and instruments of this recording are an unexpected weave of cross-cultural and anachronistic interconnections.
Butterfield: Music for Klein and Beuys - Pillar of Snails
Schwitters: Ursonate
Another excellent compilation of acoustic works by Arraymusic.
Blue Quilt
40 Fingers Saxophone Quartet
Founded in September, 1993, 40 fingers is a group of experienced and active composers and performers in the Toronto scene.
Susan Layard (vocals), Chris Devonshire (electronics), Adele Armin (violin), Marc Sabat (violin), Richard Sacks (percussion)
Five major works by Rui Shi Zhuo, who has found his own path to express traditional Chinese music through contemporary western forms.
JUNO AWARD: Best Classical Composition. (2003) Requiem Mass for a Charred Skull.
Spirit Journies, proposes a symbolic and dreamlike journey that envelops the listener with rich and diverse sounds.
Celebrating 40 years of Electroacoustic Music at Simon Fraser University 1965-2005
Inside is a Cd issued in 1996 by Canadian composer Barry Truax.
An electroacoustic opera by Barry Truax.
Twin Souls is a collection of electroacoustic compositions by Barry Truax that incorporate texts which deal with various gender issues.
Soundscape Studies is a field that was born in Vancouver through the World Soundscape Project under the direction of R. Murray Schafer in the early seventies.
The disc is framed by two works (East Wind and Pacific) that refer to the environment and cultures of the Pacific region, but all of the pieces are influenced by a growing awareness of the interplay between Eastern and Western ideas, just as the world increasingly looks to the Pacific Rim as the new centre of economic activity.
Islands metaphorically refers to islands of place, event, and community. Many places drift in and out of consciousness over the sixty-three minutes of the CD.
Barry Truax’s Digital Soundscapes is a collection of five pieces that integrate computer and electroacoustic music.
The CD is based on the celebrated Song of Solomon text from the Old Testament whose lyrical and sensual imagery is portrayed in a cycle of four movements subtitled Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night & Daybreak.
Imprints represents a twenty-five year retrospective of the work of Canadian composer Colin Mack.
This CD contains works by composers, Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957), Walter Rein (1893-1955) and Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Laughton & Humphreys is one of Canada's most exciting ensembles, winning critical and public acclaim for their versatility in performing music of Bach and Handel alongside contemporary works. All of the music on this recording was written or arranged for Laughton & Humphreys, and celebrates Canada's cultural heritage and natural beauty.
The Hannaford Street Silver Band is Toronto’s award-winning professional brass band and Resident Company of Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.Go to Top
