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Eve Egoyan, specializing in the works of living composers, releases her first CD the things in between. The selections, all world premiere recordings, range from minimalist to experimental, from the lushly complex and abstract to compositions which recall a more standard classical repertoire.
Array Live brings together five internationally recognized composers in a CD recorded live at the Gelnn Gould Hall in Toronto.
In Paradisum, has a darker opening and is rough like a pre-Columbian dance, gliding soon into the serious game of transformations that eventually sidesteps the auditioning mind and imprints itself on the body.
Toronto’s Evergreen Club has the distinction of being Canada’s first group playing music on an Indonesian gamelan (orchestra).
Memory Forms is a succession of orchestral images – chords, fragments of melody, odd scales, occasional solo lines – which appear, recede and reappear in continuously changing forms. Just as memory gives shape to life, so it forms, and informs, the experience of music.
Road to Ubud, from The Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, features world premiere recordings by renowned composers John Cage, Gilles Tremblay and James Tenney.
Celestial Machine was the first recording entirely devoted to the music of Vancouver, Canada, composer Owen Underhill. This CD collects works of varied instrumentation completed between 1984 and 1999.
The Evergreen Club's first recording of popular Indonesian music is both a plateau and a paradox.
Toronto Duets is a diverse collection of comprovisations (composition/improvisation) featuring computer musician Eugene Martynec and some of Toronto's foremost improvising composers /musicians.
Live Fingers is the second release of the 40 fingers saxophone quartet, a group of Toronto composers and performers who came together in 1993.
For There and Then combines world music with contemporary classical music. Expressing a wide range of virtuosity in blending plucked strings from around the world with Indonesian gamelan instruments.
Arraymusic’s mission is to ignite and sustain a passion for contemporary Canadian musical art within an international, interdisciplinary context.
Phh!k gathers the essence of all electronic music, from mid-20th century first attempts (like the theremin) to the German school, electro-acoustics, and experimental turn-of-the-century techniques.
This double CD contains pieces chosen by the prestigious past directors of the Array Ensemble.
To experience fully the music of Rudolf Komorous, one has only to listen attentively. The emotional language of the music is readily apparent and on the surface. And yet, the unpredictable juxtapositions of events, the turns of phrase, the surprising chords, and the unusual sounds delineate a landscape which encompasses a wide range of feelings and sensitivities.
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.Go to Top
