Winner: Proud Music of the Storm, « Oustanding Classical Composition » – Western Canadian Music Awards

Canadian composer Stephen Chatman has created some of the most powerful and lyrical music of our time. This album collects many of his best-loved and award-winning compositions for orchestra.

This CD was chosen as one of the ten best recordings of the year 2004 by Rick Phillips, Sound Advice, CBC Radio Two

« Centrediscs has brought out something wonderfully big with this new Chatman disc… Chatman’s command of the orchestra is breath-taking; there is much to discover. »

– John S. Gray, Wholenote

« This is a thoroughly enjoyable disc. »

– Robert Jordan, Opus

1-4. Proud Music of the Storm

5. Over Thorns to Stars

6. Tara’s Dream

7. Prairie Dawn

8. Crimson Dream

9. Fanfare for a Cold Land

PERFORMERS:

UBC Symphony Orchestra; Vancouver Bach Choir; University Singers; Bruce Pullan (conducter/cher d’orchestre)
Matthew Stephanson (tenor/ténor); UBC Symphony Orchestra; Jesse Read (conductor/chef d’orchestre)
UBC Symphony Orchestra; Eric Wilson (doncutor/chef d’orchestre)
Gene Ramsbottom (clarinet/clarinette); UBC Chamber Strings; Stephen Chatman (conductor/chef d’orchestre)
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Günther Herbig (conductor/chef d’orchestre)
UBC Symphony Orchestra; Eric Wilson (condcutor/chef d’orchestre)