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Trio Lyra's repertoire ranges from the Baroque through the twentieth century. They have commissioned and premiered works from some of the most prominent Canadian composers.
Pure Delight features the premiere Ottawa new music ensemble Pierrot Ensemble with its artistic director Robert Cram in a program of highly listenable pieces with a fresh musical outlook.
The music of Dances & Dirges is either lively and dance-like or more pensive and memorial in character.
The repertoire on Playing Tribute was chosen by the Aulos Trio to honour six Canadian composers who all celebrated significant birthdays in the first half of the 1990s.
The most compelling statements of composers can often be found in their miniatures. In celebration of their twentieth anniversary, Thirteen Strings of Ottawa is pleased to present this collection of reflective works from the 17th century to the present day.
The story about a singer tied to railways tracks in the middle of the desert; a myopic monster who marches towards her; a romantic lead who would like to save her; and two military trains rushing towards each other.
The two works on this recording, La porte (The Door) and Plume, belong to a genre that can be called monodrama: one solo vioce tells a story set to music. In both pieces, the vocal style emphasizes the different levels of the text, that is, the general narration and the characters. The musical accompaniment further evokes the characters and the situations.
Internationally-acclaimed Vancouver clarinetist performs the music of Pierre Boulez, Paul Dolden, Giorgio Magnanensi, and John Oliver. Houle has taken the idea of Boulez' "shadow dialogue" as inspiration for a program of works where the sound of his clarinet becomes the core of rich sound textures.
Icicle Blue Avalanche rolls over the listener with extraordinary, sculpted sounds. The collection features both electroacoustic studio works and solo electric/MIDI guitar and live electronics.
A complex sonic tapestry - Without Fear features works for solo instrument and interactive computer electronics, as well as works for "tape" alone. Performances by Miriam Arnold, flute, and Günter Marx, violin, reveal such a close integral relationship between musician and electronics that it truly sounds like extensions of the instruments themselves.
Rich, intricate, rhythmic, layered. A virtuosic performer, Andrew Czink wrings hidden orchestras from his instrument and changes how we hear piano music.
Structural Damage (Andrew Czink, piano & percussion; John Oliver, guitars) perform Live at the Lux Theatre of the Western Front (Vancouver) with special guests Douglas Schmidt, accordion, and Giorgio Magnanensi, DJ/electronics.
Astonishing Sense
of being taken over by something far greater than me
Susan Frykberg is a composer of electroacoustic music who often combines feminist ideas and theatrical processes in her work. She has created a number of "environments" in which stories (often mythological) of women's lives are the "context" for her music
Second Earsay compilation including fresh evocative electroacoustic works by six Earsay artists.
Damián Keller's music is based on "ecological sound models." The music is gesturally intense and spatially sophisticated.
Great label, superb compilation of all new music artists on the label. — Earwaves online magazine
A spectacular, dark, brilliant CD-length piece from this virtuosic German group. Heavy interactive computer and signal processed sound makes for an intense experience.
All sounds for the compositions on this CD were recorded during my travels in India in the 1990s. They form the language with which I "speak" of a relationship, of a love, that I developed for this initially very foreign place. - Hildegard Westerkamp
Karin Redekopp Edwards, Pianist
Eckhardt-Gramatté ・ Chopin ・ Liszt
Karin Redekopp Edwards is professor of piano at Wheaton College. In 2013 Wheaton College honored her with the prestigious Senior Scholar Achievement Award for her excellence in performing and teaching.
The series of compact discs New Music from the Americas seeks to showcase and promote music which represents the unique artistic vision of composers from the three Americas.
This is the first in a series of compact discs which seeks to showcase and promote music which represents the unique vision of composers from the three Americas.
Trilogy is an evening of musical theatre for actress-singer, electronic sounds and electronic extensions, with digital synthesizers and lighting effects.
This is Henrik Frisk's second CD for the Canadian label Hornblower. It features longtime friend Richie Beirach in a duo context. A few modern standards mixed with original compositions by both Frisk and Beirach.
This is a protest CD. The artists and supporters who have come together here are opposing a process dubbed "Lands for Life" — a feel-good name created by the Ontario Conservative government.
Parmela Attariwala weaves as delicate a sound from her compositions as she does from her violin and viola. This is a recording to treasure. - Kevin Mallon, Wholenote
With fellow Canadian, Brian Dickenson attentive at the piano, Kenny Wheeler's distinctive flugelhorn sounds still more eloquent. The music on Still Waters is graceful and beautifully balanced, technically accomplished and pervaded by controlled emotion. - Julian Cowley, The Wire
Beauty Enthralled includes five very different, very personal interpretations of Indian music traditions, gestures, practices and usages, as performed by Parmela Attariwala on violin and viola, along with guest performers Ravi Naimpally, tabla and singer/composer Kiran Ahluwalia.
Since 1986, Robert J. Rosen's vibrant music has fueled breathtaking performances by Vancouver's acclaimed Kokoro Dance. These stunning concert suites showcase three of Rosen's most popular compositions, performed by seven of Canada's hottest musicians.
The Inventions of Solitude was Henrik Frisks first release on the Canadian recording label Hornblower Recordings. It features a series of solo saxophone improvisations, some using overdubs and electronics, by Henrik Frisk and a very interesting piece, Saxony, by James Tenney for saxophone and tape delay system.
Symphonic compositions and double concertos by Maya BadianGo to Top
